Grand Rapids and
it is ASI time, Danny.
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Absolutely.
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Jim, I love ASI because
I love the spirit of ASI.
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Because the folks that
come here from around the world,
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this is our international
convention held once a year.
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This year as Jim said
Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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Yes. The weather is beautiful.
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Fantastic, unbelievable
weather here, folks.
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If you live anywhere
in driving distance then,
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you want to come and
spend a fantastic Sabbath
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with the whole
group of wonderful people.
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We invite you to
come and be with us live,
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if you can't then we
invite you to watch on 3ABN.
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Absolutely, I think this
is about my 29th one in a row.
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I can't imagine--
1985 was a first one,
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I don't about you,
you started way back?
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No, no, no, I
didn't because even though
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I was a member of ASI
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and even an
officer of the local,
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I was always holding
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an evangelistic
meeting in all Ohio.
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Oh, okay, all right.
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And so I missed every one until
began a conference president.
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Yeah, okay,
well, if you have not
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or not familiar
with ASI, you will be.
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We're gonna be
here all week basically
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all the way
through Saturday night,
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so you be watching 3ABN for
all the live programming's--
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programs is coming your way.
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We gonna have music,
preaching, testimonies,
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and it's a spirit
of camp meeting for us.
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And you know, and
when this is over,
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this program ASI tonight
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we will have a live
night line from here.
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And tonight the subject
is about the bridges work
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that they been doing in
San Francisco and Oakland
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where they are
treating people absolutely free
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that have no
medical help at all there.
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This is really
fantastic. It really is.
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So be sure to
stay tune for that.
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And Danny, our speaker
tonight is Chris Holland.
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Chris is the
speaker for the Canadian,
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"It Is Written" telecast,
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which is seen not only in Canada
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but all over the world.
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And so we're
going to be happy there
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to listen to Chris
as he speaks tonight.
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Well, you can hear
the music behind us.
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All right, so I
think we'll just join--
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join with us right now.
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Amen.
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Let's begin this
evening with prayer.
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Father, as we begin this
ASI International Convection,
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our prayer is the
words of John the Baptist,
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that You would
increase and we would decrease.
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Father, I pray that
Your spirit would be
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poured out in this place,
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I pray that You
will forgive our sin,
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and remove whatever
it is that would keep us
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from receiving the full blessing
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that You have for
us at this convention.
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And Father, I also
ask for Your soon return,
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and that what happens
here at this convention
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would hasten that day,
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and I pray this
in Jesus name, Amen.
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Welcome, ASI members. Am I on?
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Can you hear me? Yes.
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Yes, welcome everyone to ASI.
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It's a blessing
that you're here.
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Its Wednesday night where
we've been working like crazy
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for a whole year
trying to organize
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this wonderful meetings
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and we believe
with all of our hearts
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that the Lord has helped
us to choose the speakers
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and the
presenters and everything
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that's going to
be happening here.
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And so again I just want
to welc you I-- welcome you.
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I am would like
to encourage you all
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to prepare your
hearts with prayer
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when you come to these meetings
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because the Lord has something
to say to us this weekend.
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He certainly has.
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And another thing I
would like ask of you
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is that you don't
neglect the exhibit halls.
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We have-- I don't know if we've
around 300 exhibits out there
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and we want you to
see everyone of them.
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You'll get all kinds of
goods ideas and trinkets
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and whatever else is happening,
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you'll want to
spend sometime out there.
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Now it's my privilege to
welcome Pastor Kyle Allen.
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Pastor Kyle Allen
had a great scarifies
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to himself has agreed to become
the ASI's secretary treasurer.
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He our brand new
ASI's secretary treasurer
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and I'm going to have him
to say a few words for himself.
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All right, thank
you, Brother Frank.
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Good evening, ASI. Good evening.
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Well, it's a pleasure to be here
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and I'm very
excited to be with you.
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How many of you're
blessed to be here tonight?
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Amen.
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You know, I believe
Frank, with all my heart
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that Jesus is coming soon.
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And He is calling, His church,
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His lay people
to finish the work,
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to take the gospel
to the world, amen.
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And truly as
when we unite together
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that the gospel will go
to the ends of the earth
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and that is what
ASI is all about.
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Sharing Christ
in the marketplace
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and doing that everyday.
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Frank, I want to
ask you a question.
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Have you seen this
book that I am holding here?
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Yes, I've seen it
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and I probable read it 15 times.
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Well, this book
The Desire of Ages
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is a wonderful
book and I think today,
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everyone as you registered
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you found it in
your registration packet.
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Amen.
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Now I have a
question, Frank, to ask them.
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How many of you were brought
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into the
Seventh-day Adventist Church,
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through someone
either selling you a book
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or handing you a book
or one of you relatives,
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your forebears
someone handed them a book.
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Could I just
see a show of hands,
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if a book was instrumental
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and bringing to the
Seventh-day Adventist Church
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or someone in your family?
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Amen. Amen.
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That's a lot of people,
Frank. Yes, that's right.
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And so we want to encourage you
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to share this book, to read it,
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to be blessed by these
words in the Spirit of Prophecy
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and to share with
someone that could use it.
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Amen.
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So thank you for
being here at ASI,
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we pray that you
have a wonderful time here
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and we know that as we
unite together in prayer,
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pleading for the Holy
Spirit God will fill us
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and this work
will be finished soon.
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Thank you for coming.
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We're going to have a
good time, God bless you.
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Amen.
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Good evening, ASI family.
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So happy to be
here this evening,
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I hope you're
happy to be here as well.
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It's a blessing to be able
to meet together once a year
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and we have an
exciting program planed.
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And I have a person
here with me Melody Mason.
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In fact, we go
back quite a long ways
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because we both went to
Oklahoma Academy together
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back in the 80s and 90s.
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So it's
interesting to see the way
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God leads
different people in ministry.
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Melody, you have something
to share with us this evening.
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We're glad you're here. Amen.
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I'm so excited to be here too
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and we're just really
excited to have an emphasis
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throughout ASI of United Prayer.
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And why is
United Prayer important?
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You know, as we're
getting close to Christ coming,
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we see the enemy is angry
and he's doing more and more
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to try to disrupt the
work and keep us from praying
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and you know, he
doesn't care if we're busy,
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he doesn't care if
we're doing a lot of things
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if we're really not
connected with Jesus Christ.
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If we're not in
tune with the Holy Spirit
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and so we need that
out pouring in our lives
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and that's I think
the most important reason
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of why we need to come
together and unite in prayer,
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so that the Holy
Spirit can be poured out.
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And we've so many testimonies
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from the Bible in
Spirit of Prophecy
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were we're
encouraged to pray together.
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You know, the-- the
work that is accomplished
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through much prayer that is
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what it is really
gonna be efficient for good.
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We're also told to seek
from more the Holy Spirit.
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So we just want gather together
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and plead and pray
together as ministries,
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as people individuals, families
for more the Holy Spirit.
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That I know that you work
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in United Prayer
all over the world,
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in fact I'm sure that
you've had a lot of experiences,
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and may be you would
like to share with us,
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how is United Prayer
affecting our worldwide church?
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It's really hard
to summarize briefly
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because we have
so many testimonies
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on what God is
doing all around the world
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and answer to United Prayer.
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But we just see churches
coming together in unity,
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we see healing
taking place like issues
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that the people
were struggling with,
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that they were able
to solve any other way,
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but when they got together
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and they began really praying
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God brought the
solutions to those things.
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And the story is going on
like there is a church that--
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began praying together
and now they have a problem
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they have so many
Bible study context
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that they are not
able to meet them all
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and so that's a good
problem to have right.
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In fact, Melody,
why don't you tell us
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how can we unite in prayer here?
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Give us the details of
how we can unite in prayer
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right here at ASI?
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We want to come
together every morning at 6:15
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before the meeting starts.
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Now you may say
6:15 that's really early.
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You know, there's people
around the world right now
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that are getting up at
4:30 entire churches to pray,
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hundreds of people at a time
and as a result God's spirit
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is being poured out.
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So we are giving you
two hours to sleep in.
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We're asking for
6:15 in the morning
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just come together and pray
and just see what God will do,
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and also not just
at 6:15 in the morning
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we're going to
also encourage you
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the prayer room is not
staff throughout the day,
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I'll be leading
praying there in the morning,
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but throughout the day its open
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and we just
encourage you individually
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and as members get together,
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ministries go into
the prayer room and pray
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and just see what God will do.
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Can I share one
testimony about Vietnam?
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No, I think your time is up.
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Okay, I just want to
challenge you to come
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and the pray room is actually
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you head
straight out the door here
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and up the escalators
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and just follow the
signs down the hall.
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It's really easy to get to,
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so we look forward to
seeing you there in the morning.
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Thank you. Thank
you so much, Melody.
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I want to encourage each of you
to be there at the prayer room
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and to unite in prayer
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throughout the
entire convention.
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We have some
other exciting things
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that we want to share
with you about the convention,
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one of the
highlights for those of you
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that had been here
before is our exhibit hall.
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It's just amazing to
see how different ministries
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are working for the
Lord, businesses as well,
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hand in hand with ministries,
church organizations.
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And so the
exhibit hall is a place
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that you don't want to miss.
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And in fact, it opens
for the first this evening
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right after this
meeting at 9 o'clock
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the exhibit hall will
be open and it will be--
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the hours are printed
in your program guide.
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Your program
guide is very important
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because it's going
to guide you through
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what is happening
at the different times.
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So it's very important for
you to get familiar with that.
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I want to mention one
thing that's very important
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and its-- I believe its a first
and that is a town hall meeting
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that we're going to have on
Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock.
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This is a meeting
where we're inviting you
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to submit your questions.
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You can submit your question
right now for that meeting.
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You can either email them to
questions at ASIministries.org.
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Questions at ASIministries.org
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or you can leave
them in the question box
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that is at the
registration counter.
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So we would like to
invite you to ask your question
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that will be
answered by Ted Wilson
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and also by Daniel Jackson.
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And it will be
moderated by Dan Haultin.
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And so you definitely who
want to be there at that meeting
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and we want to
get your interaction
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by asking your
questions ahead of time,
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so that we can be pertinent
in answering those questions.
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Well, technology always
moves forward and advances
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and we have a
couple of things this year
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that we are
pleased to share with you.
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I want to point you to
our website ASIministries.org
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and I want to point you
to it actually right now
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because our website now
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is compatible on
your mobile devices
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and we have a
little surprise for you
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that we've never had so
far in the ASI convention.
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Have you ever seen
somebody come up on stage
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and their name appears up there
on the super for few seconds
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and then after
that oh, I missed that,
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who is that that's up there?
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Well, I thinks its
probably happened to everybody
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and so now you are going to be
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able to have the program details
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right in front of
you for each meeting.
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We publish them a
little bit-- a few hours
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before each of the
main session meetings,
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we publish them in.
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So if you look
at ASIministries.org
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there is a place that
you can click on there
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that says keynote session,
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because this is
a keynote session.
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Keynote session line
up, if you click on that
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you'll be able to see everybody
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that's on the
program this evening.
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So I pray that that will be
a blessing to you that will be
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useful to you and that you'll
be able to get even more out
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of the program
because of that added benefit.
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So I just-- I'm so delighted
that each of you're here
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and I just pray that
God's spirit will be poured out
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in a very
powerful way on each of us.
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Good evening,
ASI. Good evening, ASI.
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Don't you love family reunions?
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I know it's always a highlight
of my summer to come to ASI
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and see so many friends and--
and those in the family of God.
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And not only are we going
to have plenty of opportunity
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for fellowship and for
mingling and networking,
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but we're also going to have
some wonderful opportunities
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to learn and to grow
in our knowledge base.
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And here with me tonight
our some of the presenters
00:14:03.25\00:14:06.38
that will be
giving seminars tomorrow
00:14:06.41\00:14:08.74
and I just want
to encourage you,
00:14:08.77\00:14:10.57
I know there is
always, all those people
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we haven't seen for a while,
00:14:12.60\00:14:13.96
but I want to
encourage you to make your way
00:14:13.99\00:14:15.41
to one of the seminars.
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In fact, take out your
program now if you could
00:14:16.53\00:14:19.26
and it's on page
seven, tomorrow seminars are--
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that they begin on page seven
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and they'll be at
10:45 tomorrow morning
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and then again
3:30 in the afternoon.
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And these are
some of the presenters
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that are going to be telling
you about their seminars.
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Now they only have 30 seconds.
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So don't-- don't
leave here tonight
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and say well, I already know
what they're gonna talk about.
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Because you don't really know,
00:14:41.82\00:14:43.51
all of what they
gonna talk about.
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They have all
seminars to share with you.
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But we're gonna go and let
them tell you a little bit about
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what they going to be
talking about in their seminars.
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Good evening, everyone.
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I'm Vicky
Griffin and my colleague
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and I represent
the Michigan Conference
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and Lifestyle Matters.
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We are presenting a
seminar entitled Fit and Free,
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Building Brain and Body Health.
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And in the Michigan Conference
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we believe that health education
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is only one small
peace of health evangelism.
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So we want to equip you,
excite you and empower you
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to do soul winning
through evangelism,
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gaining decisions for Christ
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and teaching important testing
truths for these last days.
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Those who attend our
seminar are going to receive
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the first five
professionally produced scripted
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editable PowerPoint
programs of the series
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and that includes
Building a Better Brain,
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Your Fabulous,
Forgotten Friend, Fiber,
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The Great Sugar
Scandal, Mind Set Matters
00:15:49.26\00:15:53.62
and Engineered for Success.
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Those programs will be yours
00:15:56.21\00:15:58.09
as part of your
introductory training package
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when you come to
our program. Thank you.
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Hello, my name is Daniel Mesa,
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I will not be
speaking, brother Clark,
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but I will-- I'm representing
Pastor Stephen Bohr.
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You've heard of
Pastor Stephen Bohr
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from Secrets Unsealed probably.
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He's gonna be here presenting
tomorrow morning at 10:45
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and one of the verses he'll be
sharing is in Revelation 16:15
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which says,
"Behold, I come as a thief.
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Blessed is he that
watches, and keeps his garments,
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lest he walk naked,
and they see his shame."
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His question will be,
what does this verse have to do
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with righteousness by
faith and the end time conflict?
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So please come and
hear Pastor Stephen Bohr,
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with Secrets Unsealed present
this most amazing presentation.
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My name is Steven Grabiner,
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Seventh-day Adventist
generally are well familiar
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with certain parts of
the Book of Revelation.
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However two of the
most important chapters,
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chapters 4 and 5
scarcely receive our attention.
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These chapters are
full of instruction
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and comfort and guidance for us.
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If you'd like to see, how
the Great Controversy fits
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into the Book of
Revelation in a way
00:17:17.97\00:17:19.54
you've not yet seen it.
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Bring your Bible,
something to take notes
00:17:21.34\00:17:24.00
and come to the
seminar the Uplifted Lamb,
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an exploration of
Revelation 4 and 5.
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That's Thursday
afternoon at 3:30.
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My name is Antoinette Duck,
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I work with an
organization called Mafgia
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my partner Diane Wagner and I'm
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and we're presenting a
seminar called Abortion,
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Redemption and Restoration.
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A need, a calling and a hope.
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The name Mafgia is a
Hebrew word for intercessor,
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and we are
committed to interceding
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for the sanctity of human life,
00:17:54.50\00:17:55.88
from conception
to natural death,
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but also for interceding
for reconciliation in redemption
00:17:57.90\00:18:01.79
for those who've experience
the pain of an abortion.
00:18:01.82\00:18:05.14
Our seminar is going to explore
two very profound realities.
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The first is that there are many
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who have experienced
the tragedy of an abortion
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and the traumatic
effects of that have on those
00:18:16.09\00:18:18.49
who have experienced it.
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The second reality is
the glory of redemptive grace
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and the calling that we have
as individuals and as a church
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to be instruments through which
the captive can be set free.
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My name is Rob Neall,
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excellence is
something that we all along for.
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We want to live of meaning
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and make a
impact on peoples lives,
00:18:41.13\00:18:44.10
but it seems that so
often throughout our existence
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we instead of thriving we
find ourselves barely surviving.
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Excellence can be illusive,
we see-- we know when see it,
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but attaining that
is often a mystery.
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And in recent years has
been a huge amount of research
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that isn't been done in
the field of outstanding
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achievement and success.
00:19:02.56\00:19:04.53
And in this
seminar we're gonna be
00:19:04.56\00:19:05.79
looking at much of this research
00:19:05.82\00:19:06.95
and specifically
the seven key attributes
00:19:06.98\00:19:09.27
of living a life of excellence.
00:19:09.30\00:19:11.83
If you want to know
how Monroe A at 3:30.
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Art Chadwick,
00:19:17.46\00:19:19.24
we are going to be talking
about Creation and Evolution.
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Creation and
Evolution our hot topic
00:19:22.99\00:19:25.33
at the Geological
Society of America meetings
00:19:25.36\00:19:28.29
and they are hot topic
00:19:28.32\00:19:29.37
in the
Seventh-day Adventist Church.
00:19:29.40\00:19:31.71
I would like to
cover with you the issues,
00:19:31.74\00:19:33.86
why does it matter,
what does it matter,
00:19:33.89\00:19:36.78
what do we believe
and what impact does
00:19:36.81\00:19:40.05
the science have on our belief?
00:19:40.08\00:19:42.23
And we'll go over these
issues on tomorrow afternoon.
00:19:42.26\00:19:46.73
My name is Dan Gabbert,
00:19:50.66\00:19:53.99
I have the incredible
privilege of sharing with you,
00:19:54.02\00:19:58.83
but I believed to be
one of the most valuable
00:19:58.86\00:20:01.87
and important
ingredients to a godly healing,
00:20:01.90\00:20:08.74
mental in spiritual health.
00:20:08.77\00:20:13.19
The ingredient
that I'll be addressing
00:20:13.22\00:20:16.99
is the Repentance of Christ.
00:20:17.02\00:20:21.33
Not only the
repentance He gifts,
00:20:21.36\00:20:25.75
but also the repentance
00:20:25.78\00:20:28.24
that He personally experienced
while He was here on earth.
00:20:28.27\00:20:32.74
That is so vital for
you and I to understand.
00:20:32.77\00:20:38.03
So choose one of those seminars
and I will see you there.
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I can do all
things through Christ,
00:21:22.06\00:21:27.63
who gives me strength
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But sometimes I wonder
00:21:31.36\00:21:33.83
what He can do through me?
00:21:33.86\00:21:40.33
No great success to show
00:21:42.18\00:21:47.23
No glory on my own
00:21:47.26\00:21:51.36
Yet in my weakness
00:21:51.39\00:21:53.69
He is there to let me know
00:21:53.72\00:22:01.01
His strength is perfect
00:22:01.04\00:22:05.50
When our strength is gone
00:22:05.53\00:22:11.83
He'll carry us
00:22:11.86\00:22:15.16
When we can't carry on
00:22:15.19\00:22:22.34
Raised in His power
00:22:22.37\00:22:26.54
The weak become strong
00:22:26.57\00:22:33.53
His strength is perfect
00:22:33.56\00:22:39.89
His strength is perfect
00:22:39.92\00:22:46.39
We can only know
00:22:48.90\00:22:53.75
The power that He holds
00:22:53.78\00:22:58.44
When we truly see
00:22:58.47\00:23:00.88
how deep our weakness goes
00:23:00.91\00:23:06.92
His strength in us begins
00:23:09.06\00:23:14.19
Where ours comes to an end
00:23:14.22\00:23:19.16
He hears our humble cry
00:23:19.19\00:23:22.84
And proves again
00:23:22.87\00:23:27.23
His strength is perfect
00:23:33.40\00:23:38.50
When our strength is gone
00:23:38.53\00:23:45.22
He'll carry us
00:23:45.25\00:23:48.95
When we can't carry on
00:23:48.98\00:23:56.23
Raised in His power
00:23:56.26\00:24:00.91
The weak become strong
00:24:00.94\00:24:08.01
His strength is perfect
00:24:08.04\00:24:13.25
His strength is perfect
00:24:13.28\00:24:18.72
Raised in His power
00:24:18.75\00:24:23.77
The weak become strong
00:24:23.80\00:24:31.27
His strength
00:24:35.68\00:24:37.90
Is perfect
00:24:37.93\00:24:44.18
His strength
00:24:44.21\00:24:46.76
Is perfect
00:24:46.79\00:24:52.68
Good evening, ASI.
00:25:04.14\00:25:06.59
Welcome to another
offering in action segment
00:25:08.85\00:25:12.05
the first in our convention.
00:25:12.08\00:25:14.40
This is a time when
we hear about projects
00:25:14.43\00:25:16.49
that your offerings have funded
00:25:16.52\00:25:18.88
and that your
offerings will fund
00:25:18.91\00:25:20.92
during this convention.
00:25:20.95\00:25:22.49
With me is Julia O'Carey,
she is the director of ASAP.
00:25:22.52\00:25:26.97
I'm gonna ask you to tell us
00:25:27.00\00:25:28.41
what is that stand
for and what is ASAP?
00:25:28.44\00:25:31.93
ASAP Ministries is
non-profit organization
00:25:31.96\00:25:36.11
and it stands for Adventist
Southeast Asia Projects,
00:25:36.14\00:25:40.20
but since we work in a
lot of persecuted countries,
00:25:40.23\00:25:43.66
close countries
that also can stand for
00:25:43.69\00:25:46.20
Advocates Spiritually
Assisting the Persecuting.
00:25:46.23\00:25:50.20
Now tell us a little
bit about the project
00:25:50.23\00:25:52.07
that last years offering fund in
00:25:52.10\00:25:54.45
and what's the status?
00:25:54.48\00:25:55.53
I know there are
some different phases
00:25:55.56\00:25:57.67
that happen in our project.
00:25:57.70\00:25:58.92
Where are we right now?
00:25:58.95\00:26:00.38
This is really exciting Debbie,
00:26:00.41\00:26:01.96
because we work
in Southeast Asia
00:26:01.99\00:26:04.35
where we encounter a
lot of people in poverty
00:26:04.38\00:26:07.50
and we want to do
evangelistic work,
00:26:07.53\00:26:13.03
but we also want to
help them where they are at.
00:26:13.06\00:26:15.26
And so what we are
doing is we're helping the--
00:26:15.29\00:26:21.28
the lay
pastors, the missionaries
00:26:21.31\00:26:23.35
that were supporting
to be like tent makers.
00:26:23.38\00:26:26.84
And so some of
them have developed
00:26:26.87\00:26:29.02
their own small businesses
00:26:29.05\00:26:30.91
and in doing so they
have been able to witness
00:26:30.94\00:26:33.70
just like ASI in that
respect through their business
00:26:33.73\00:26:37.87
and we have some pictures
00:26:37.90\00:26:39.96
to show you in a little bit too.
00:26:39.99\00:26:41.43
All right, so I
mean it sounds very--
00:26:41.46\00:26:43.67
like you were on
humanitarian work is going on,
00:26:43.70\00:26:47.70
how is that
leading people to Christ?
00:26:47.73\00:26:50.36
Well, you know, we do
want to work as Jesus worked
00:26:50.39\00:26:56.18
and Jesus didn't just
preached to people, did He?
00:26:56.21\00:26:59.29
He met their needs,
He came close to them,
00:26:59.32\00:27:02.45
He saw what He could
do to open their hearts
00:27:02.48\00:27:06.94
so that they would
want to hear His message.
00:27:06.97\00:27:09.29
And I love this
verse in James 2:5 it says
00:27:09.32\00:27:11.74
"Listen, my dear brothers,
has not God chosen those
00:27:11.77\00:27:15.10
who are poor in the eyes of
the world to be rich in faith,
00:27:15.13\00:27:18.79
and to inherit the kingdom
00:27:18.82\00:27:20.27
he promised those who love him?"
00:27:20.30\00:27:22.60
Jesus has a heart
for the poor, doesn't He?
00:27:22.63\00:27:25.36
And we want to do
all we can to lift them
00:27:25.39\00:27:28.43
out of poverty, help
them and support them
00:27:28.46\00:27:32.50
to make an income and
support their families.
00:27:32.53\00:27:35.42
These missionaries
only get small stipends,
00:27:35.45\00:27:38.51
and so we want to make
them empower to do the work,
00:27:38.54\00:27:42.96
but also meet the needs.
00:27:42.99\00:27:44.72
Now you have some pictures,
00:27:44.75\00:27:45.79
why don't you walk us through
those pretty quickly here.
00:27:45.82\00:27:48.91
Sure.
00:27:48.94\00:27:50.24
The first
picture, you see one of our
00:27:50.27\00:27:53.56
lay pastors in Laos,
in the front smiling.
00:27:53.59\00:27:56.66
And you see the
building behind him
00:27:56.69\00:27:58.64
doesn't that look like a church
00:27:58.67\00:28:00.61
that actually
is his barber shop.
00:28:00.64\00:28:03.31
And he received a
small loan from ASAP
00:28:03.34\00:28:08.21
and with that loan he was
able to buy a barber chair
00:28:08.24\00:28:13.30
and he does such
an amazing ministry
00:28:13.33\00:28:17.68
by shaving the
gospel, while cutting hair.
00:28:17.71\00:28:20.47
He has Ten Commandments
written on the wall,
00:28:20.50\00:28:22.82
he showing love, Adventist DVDs
00:28:22.85\00:28:27.61
and they are getting it,
00:28:27.64\00:28:28.69
all this information
they ask him questions,
00:28:28.72\00:28:31.87
and we have many that have come
to the church and then baptized
00:28:31.90\00:28:35.95
because of his
witness to this ministry.
00:28:35.98\00:28:39.25
So it's very
exciting now, the next loan
00:28:39.28\00:28:41.73
that he's asking for is
so that his wife can start--
00:28:41.76\00:28:45.47
they can expand and she can have
00:28:45.50\00:28:47.57
beauty shop
with his barber shop.
00:28:47.60\00:28:49.86
And he would come
with me to Cambodia.
00:28:49.89\00:28:52.66
This is one of
our literacy teachers
00:28:52.69\00:28:54.68
and he spends every
evening teaching people
00:28:54.71\00:28:57.32
how to read and
write in about the Lord.
00:28:57.35\00:28:59.83
And he loves his
work, but he only gets
00:28:59.86\00:29:02.16
$30 stipend from ASAP a
month, not enough to live on.
00:29:02.19\00:29:06.50
And so what we are
able to do is give him,
00:29:06.53\00:29:10.48
a goyan, and a
goyan is actually--
00:29:10.51\00:29:14.96
You're looking
like what is that?
00:29:14.99\00:29:16.92
That is a
tractor, like a rototiller
00:29:16.95\00:29:20.02
and it cost $3,000
00:29:20.05\00:29:21.96
but this is impacted
not only him and his family
00:29:21.99\00:29:25.54
but the church families,
00:29:25.57\00:29:28.20
all using it to
plough their fields for rice
00:29:28.23\00:29:31.36
and they rent it to the
people in their neighborhood
00:29:31.39\00:29:34.42
and it helps build up
the income for the church
00:29:34.45\00:29:37.18
and it's just
been a real blessing,
00:29:37.21\00:29:39.24
really exciting.
00:29:39.27\00:29:40.59
Now even on the
other side of a goyan,
00:29:40.62\00:29:42.57
there is something else
more basic in your next picture
00:29:42.60\00:29:46.05
that is helping people.
00:29:46.08\00:29:48.24
Yes, the next
picture you will see
00:29:48.27\00:29:51.00
is literacy teacher
put on in his family
00:29:51.03\00:29:54.46
and they received a cow,
00:29:54.49\00:29:56.56
and its amazing how
one little cow for $500
00:29:56.59\00:30:00.15
can really impact their
whole life and their family.
00:30:00.18\00:30:03.73
So small, small loans,
small ways but big impact.
00:30:03.76\00:30:09.64
That's
wonderful. That's wonderful.
00:30:09.67\00:30:11.19
Now tell us some
a little bit about
00:30:11.22\00:30:13.70
how we can find out more
about what ASAP is doing?
00:30:13.73\00:30:16.92
How we can be involved?
00:30:16.95\00:30:18.10
How we can
help? How we can pray?
00:30:18.13\00:30:19.80
How we can
understand these things?
00:30:19.83\00:30:21.95
Well, ASAP Ministries,
00:30:21.98\00:30:24.43
there are ways you
can get involved in
00:30:24.46\00:30:26.21
and we have a
booth here, booth 209
00:30:26.24\00:30:29.03
and we'd love to
talk more with you
00:30:29.06\00:30:31.36
about that, about our ministry,
00:30:31.39\00:30:33.87
but we sponsor
through God's grace
00:30:33.90\00:30:38.01
about 500 national missionaries
00:30:38.04\00:30:40.40
that are out there in
countries like Thailand,
00:30:40.43\00:30:43.27
Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Myanmar
00:30:43.30\00:30:46.61
and close countries
I can't mention on TV,
00:30:46.64\00:30:49.85
and what we do is
sponsor these missionaries
00:30:49.88\00:30:52.56
who know the
language, know the culture
00:30:52.59\00:30:55.08
can stay there to do the work
and we see incredible results.
00:30:55.11\00:31:00.04
And we need sponsors,
we need prayer supporters.
00:31:00.07\00:31:04.46
I have these prayer
support card at the booth
00:31:04.49\00:31:07.52
and if you want to
commit to sponsoring them,
00:31:07.55\00:31:10.23
praying for them,
you or your church group
00:31:10.26\00:31:13.56
I'm happy to give you
one of those here at ASI.
00:31:13.59\00:31:17.02
And also I'm so excited
about these mission podcast
00:31:17.05\00:31:20.72
if you guys
love mission stories,
00:31:20.75\00:31:23.01
you gonna want us
sign up, get your email
00:31:23.04\00:31:25.59
and every Thursday night
we send our a mission podcast
00:31:25.62\00:31:29.78
and that's
Pastors Scott Griswold,
00:31:29.81\00:31:31.55
who's been in the
mission field for over 16 years
00:31:31.58\00:31:34.30
and he's sharing
mission stories with you,
00:31:34.33\00:31:36.41
fresh from the field.
00:31:36.44\00:31:37.95
And you can
share it for vespers,
00:31:37.98\00:31:40.35
you can share it
for family worship,
00:31:40.38\00:31:43.01
and I think you'll be inspired
and we have our 10 favorite,
00:31:43.04\00:31:46.55
so we love to give
you as a little gift
00:31:46.58\00:31:48.32
if you come by
our booth as well.
00:31:48.35\00:31:49.73
Okay, and that's
booth number 209.
00:31:49.76\00:31:52.73
All right, thank
you very much, Julia.
00:31:52.76\00:31:54.34
Thank you.
00:31:54.37\00:31:55.54
All right, let us
keep ASAP in our prayers
00:31:55.57\00:31:58.33
'cause the power
is in the prayer.
00:31:58.36\00:32:00.68
Coming to the podium now is
Keith Mosier and Luke Fisher,
00:32:00.71\00:32:04.67
they are with
Congo Frontline Missions.
00:32:04.70\00:32:07.60
And they're going to give
some exciting information about
00:32:07.63\00:32:10.81
what has been
happening in the Congo.
00:32:10.84\00:32:12.65
First I want to say, I know
the Congo Frontline Missions
00:32:12.68\00:32:14.97
has been in
operation since 2008,
00:32:15.00\00:32:17.99
and that you and
your wife and family,
00:32:18.02\00:32:20.74
you were here last year,
00:32:20.77\00:32:22.22
but you actually
expanded your ministry team.
00:32:22.25\00:32:24.91
Exactly. Three fold kind of.
00:32:24.94\00:32:26.65
So tell us a
little bit about that,
00:32:26.68\00:32:28.97
then involves a
couple of pictures coming up.
00:32:29.00\00:32:31.32
Well, on July 10th this year
00:32:31.35\00:32:33.55
my wife gave birth to
a beautiful little girl.
00:32:33.58\00:32:37.62
You see her up there,
yeah, and she's gonna be
00:32:37.65\00:32:41.69
going back to with us
to Congo in September.
00:32:41.72\00:32:44.05
All right, so that's a
team member number one.
00:32:44.08\00:32:47.30
That's right.
00:32:47.33\00:32:48.37
Where are the
other team members?
00:32:48.40\00:32:49.91
Well, the others are
Luke and Chantee Fisher
00:32:49.94\00:32:52.73
they been on our
team since last year
00:32:52.76\00:32:55.21
and actually
previously they joined us--
00:32:55.24\00:32:57.03
on their honeymoon two years ago
00:32:57.06\00:32:58.93
and soon after that said, hey,
we liked it so much in Congo
00:32:58.96\00:33:01.21
we're gonna go back.
00:33:01.24\00:33:02.27
So they
volunteered on their honeymoon?
00:33:02.30\00:33:04.90
Now that's commitment.
All right, very good.
00:33:04.93\00:33:07.89
And so that's team
three, so where is number three?
00:33:07.92\00:33:10.88
I mean that's was two,
where is-- team number three?
00:33:10.91\00:33:13.36
Well, let Luke
tell you about that one.
00:33:13.39\00:33:15.95
Well, Keith was not the only
one to have a baby this summer.
00:33:15.98\00:33:20.48
My wife and I had
a-- April 27 this spring
00:33:20.51\00:33:25.41
and so we-- we be taking back
00:33:25.44\00:33:27.88
also our son to-- to
Congo with us in September.
00:33:27.91\00:33:31.86
His name is Hudson, named after
pioneer missionary to China.
00:33:31.89\00:33:36.20
Excellent. Excellent.
00:33:36.23\00:33:37.68
So, Keith, tell us, catch us up
00:33:37.71\00:33:39.54
what is being
going on in the Congo?
00:33:39.57\00:33:41.55
Well, in Congo,
we've been continuing on
00:33:41.58\00:33:43.78
with our ministry
in church planting
00:33:43.81\00:33:45.87
and radio work, we've got
evangelism training school,
00:33:45.90\00:33:49.23
also an
agricultural training school
00:33:49.26\00:33:51.39
and we have 71
church planters stationed
00:33:51.42\00:33:54.48
in remote places
sharing Jesus with their friends
00:33:54.51\00:33:56.93
and neighbors in the community.
00:33:56.96\00:33:58.18
Now last years offering was
focused on the radio ministry
00:33:58.21\00:34:01.08
can you give us an
update on how that's going?
00:34:01.11\00:34:03.39
Well, the radio
ministry is amazing
00:34:03.42\00:34:05.82
because it reaches
out to such a large--
00:34:05.85\00:34:08.43
such a large group of people.
00:34:08.46\00:34:10.09
We have about 3.5
million people on our potential
00:34:10.12\00:34:13.58
listening base around Kisangani
00:34:13.61\00:34:15.78
that we can reach
with our transmission.
00:34:15.81\00:34:18.05
Though that's a lot of people,
00:34:18.08\00:34:19.15
how do you have an
idea of they are responding?
00:34:19.18\00:34:22.27
Are they
receiving it and hearing it?
00:34:22.30\00:34:23.73
Do you know how they are
responding to the mission?
00:34:23.76\00:34:25.24
Responding very well.
00:34:25.27\00:34:26.44
We have sermon presentations
00:34:26.47\00:34:28.12
and Bible presentations
held there, often calling in
00:34:28.15\00:34:31.31
and desiring to
get either in home
00:34:31.34\00:34:33.40
or correspondence Bible studies
and then coming to church,
00:34:33.43\00:34:36.19
we find people
even coming to church,
00:34:36.22\00:34:37.91
that's exciting to me.
00:34:37.94\00:34:39.01
That is really exciting.
00:34:39.04\00:34:40.60
So the offerings
have been put to good use.
00:34:40.63\00:34:43.70
And we're seeing
even though some reaping
00:34:43.73\00:34:45.38
that's happening from there.
00:34:45.41\00:34:46.58
Thank you ASI. Thanks to ASI.
00:34:46.61\00:34:48.48
So Luke, tell me a little
bit about what you are doing?
00:34:48.51\00:34:51.25
You're part of the
team and what is your focus,
00:34:51.28\00:34:53.68
you and Chantee?
00:34:53.71\00:34:55.19
My wife and I, along
with the other members there
00:34:55.22\00:34:58.43
teach classes at
the evangelism school,
00:34:58.46\00:35:00.50
but one of the special things
that we've been focusing on
00:35:00.53\00:35:02.60
starting this last
year was health outreach,
00:35:02.63\00:35:05.84
in particular dental ministry.
00:35:05.87\00:35:08.82
Besides equipping people
for-- equipping the Congolese
00:35:08.85\00:35:12.35
for sharing the gospel with
their fellow country men there,
00:35:12.38\00:35:16.78
we are also equipping them
for a service in other areas.
00:35:16.81\00:35:19.70
One of the major needs
in Congo is dental care.
00:35:19.73\00:35:22.98
There is not access to
any dental care other than
00:35:23.01\00:35:26.82
rudimentary
extractions in the city centers.
00:35:26.85\00:35:29.90
So we've been
training Congolese nurses
00:35:29.93\00:35:31.71
and restorative and
preventive treatment
00:35:31.74\00:35:34.64
and then partnering with
the government health system
00:35:34.67\00:35:37.25
there in the rural clinic areas
00:35:37.28\00:35:38.99
and working in conjunction
with our church palters,
00:35:39.02\00:35:41.59
they will host
us out in the area
00:35:41.62\00:35:43.12
where we were planting a church
and will-- we have a cycle
00:35:43.15\00:35:47.64
where we do
clinics out of those areas
00:35:47.67\00:35:49.82
and hold meetings in conjunction
00:35:49.85\00:35:50.94
with the church planters.
00:35:50.97\00:35:52.01
Now you not only
doing some dental work
00:35:52.04\00:35:53.78
but you doing some
gardening or some other work?
00:35:53.81\00:35:56.84
Congo Frontline
Missions does also have
00:35:56.87\00:35:58.81
a new
agricultural training program
00:35:58.84\00:36:01.24
that we're starting
in-- that was ongoing
00:36:01.27\00:36:04.38
since I left even Keith could--
even tell us more about that.
00:36:04.41\00:36:09.03
So we're wanting
to teach people to be
00:36:09.06\00:36:11.16
able to have
better lives in all areas
00:36:11.19\00:36:13.78
and that means
having better food,
00:36:13.81\00:36:15.46
knowing the Lord Jesus Christ
00:36:15.49\00:36:17.12
and having a
better family environment.
00:36:17.15\00:36:18.95
So we are try to work on
all aspects of peoples lives.
00:36:18.98\00:36:22.71
Now, Keith, I would like
you to share with us some story
00:36:22.74\00:36:25.63
which is actually a continuation
00:36:25.66\00:36:27.56
of something we heard last year.
00:36:27.59\00:36:29.74
So just kind of
give us some context
00:36:29.77\00:36:31.76
and tell us how
are things going there?
00:36:31.79\00:36:33.97
Well, I'll share a
story that's dear to my heart
00:36:34.00\00:36:38.08
as a parent having
three little ones now
00:36:38.11\00:36:41.14
that were raising as
little missionaries for Jesus.
00:36:41.17\00:36:44.65
We have a radio
that's very active
00:36:44.68\00:36:48.22
in bringing people
in, bringing stories in,
00:36:48.25\00:36:50.63
but there is a
very special village,
00:36:50.66\00:36:52.31
it's very
different from other places.
00:36:52.34\00:36:54.04
The village of
Alebuku, is a place
00:36:54.07\00:36:56.43
where they've
come to us and said,
00:36:56.46\00:36:58.68
we liked what we
heard on the radio so much,
00:36:58.71\00:37:00.48
we want you to
come built a church
00:37:00.51\00:37:03.16
and started church there.
00:37:03.19\00:37:04.46
And so finally we worked on
00:37:04.49\00:37:06.73
getting a church
planter ready to move
00:37:06.76\00:37:07.99
and we found a
young man who is strong
00:37:08.02\00:37:10.30
and newly married
and able to go there,
00:37:10.33\00:37:12.80
and we said this guy will
do a good job in that place.
00:37:12.83\00:37:15.94
And who was that person?
00:37:15.97\00:37:18.01
It's someone that I got
to tell you about last year.
00:37:18.04\00:37:21.14
Last year I
shared the painful story
00:37:21.17\00:37:24.14
of Senga-Jean Nebandrombi,
00:37:24.17\00:37:26.45
who was with us there in Congo,
we sent him out to remote area.
00:37:26.48\00:37:30.16
He was working with his
family, his daughters, his wife
00:37:30.19\00:37:33.10
and sadly enough
they all got sick,
00:37:33.13\00:37:37.19
his son died.
00:37:37.22\00:37:38.60
Later on his wife was
sick during her pregnancy
00:37:38.63\00:37:42.72
and she gave birth
prematurely, continued bleeding
00:37:42.75\00:37:46.65
and the following
morning she passed away.
00:37:46.68\00:37:48.71
Later on that
little boy also died.
00:37:48.74\00:37:52.55
And the
admonition, the challenge
00:37:52.58\00:37:54.81
that she gave to her
husband on her death bed,
00:37:54.84\00:37:57.35
was that he should
continue to work for Jesus.
00:37:57.38\00:37:59.61
Take care of our
children and don't stop doing
00:37:59.64\00:38:02.03
Gods work was what she said.
00:38:02.06\00:38:03.78
And she-- he
continued on with that.
00:38:03.81\00:38:05.37
He said all right, I'm
gonna take that seriously.
00:38:05.40\00:38:08.46
He-- his-- I'm proud to tell you
00:38:08.49\00:38:10.77
that his children
have a mother again.
00:38:10.80\00:38:13.32
He got re-married last year
00:38:13.35\00:38:15.58
and it's the woman
that they know well.
00:38:15.61\00:38:17.63
He married his
wife's younger sister.
00:38:17.66\00:38:20.24
And they are
continuing on in service.
00:38:20.27\00:38:22.34
We have now sent them
to Alebuku, this new area
00:38:22.37\00:38:25.37
that the radio
ministry opened the doors
00:38:25.40\00:38:28.03
to start the church
there and he and his family
00:38:28.06\00:38:30.43
which you see on the screen
are continuing to serve Jesus.
00:38:30.46\00:38:33.08
I have joy for young family.
00:38:33.11\00:38:34.16
I went out and
visited them recently,
00:38:34.19\00:38:36.06
preached in this little
jungle church made of a thatch
00:38:36.09\00:38:38.74
and I got to go out with them.
00:38:38.77\00:38:40.05
After a church we
ate a little lunch
00:38:40.08\00:38:41.95
that his wife
prepared rice and beans
00:38:41.98\00:38:43.44
with the church members there
00:38:43.47\00:38:44.75
and then we went
out house to house,
00:38:44.78\00:38:46.12
praying with these people,
their friends and neighbors.
00:38:46.15\00:38:48.95
They have a joy
for little family,
00:38:48.98\00:38:50.22
and a joy for
little church plant
00:38:50.25\00:38:51.89
getting ready for heaven
00:38:51.92\00:38:53.32
and I know
there is joy up there.
00:38:53.35\00:38:55.18
I tell you, Luke and Keith,
00:38:55.21\00:38:56.85
thank you so much
for what you're doing,
00:38:56.88\00:38:58.14
your commitment in the Congo.
00:38:58.17\00:38:59.71
Keep the work going and
we'll keep supporting you.
00:38:59.74\00:39:01.72
Thank you. Thank you.
00:39:01.75\00:39:02.80
God bless you all.
00:39:02.83\00:39:05.95
That was tremendous,
00:39:05.98\00:39:07.80
and now another tremendous
report from Maranatha.
00:39:07.83\00:39:10.85
We'll hear from Kenneth
Weiss, he is a vice president
00:39:10.88\00:39:14.80
I believe of Maranatha.
00:39:14.83\00:39:15.91
That's correct. Yeah.
00:39:15.94\00:39:17.03
And Maranatha and ASI have been
00:39:17.06\00:39:19.27
partner's together
working for the Lord for years.
00:39:19.30\00:39:23.38
That's right
Debbie, almost four decades
00:39:23.41\00:39:26.57
Maranatha and ASI
have done projects.
00:39:26.60\00:39:28.90
Maranatha members
and ASI member have done
00:39:28.93\00:39:33.04
all kids of things together.
00:39:33.07\00:39:34.57
I was looking back
through the records.
00:39:34.60\00:39:36.98
The impact has been phenomenal
from countries A to Z.
00:39:37.01\00:39:41.58
from projects in Afghanistan,
00:39:41.61\00:39:43.71
all the way to
projects in Zambia,
00:39:43.74\00:39:45.63
there's been projects where
ASI has made this picture roles
00:39:45.66\00:39:49.52
and Maranatha
volunteers have taken them
00:39:49.55\00:39:52.12
to churches and to schools
and the list goes on and on.
00:39:52.15\00:39:57.08
The impact of
partnership is fantastic.
00:39:57.11\00:39:59.95
Now you even--
00:39:59.98\00:40:01.01
You have some
pictures that's helps,
00:40:01.04\00:40:02.24
it actually give a
pictorial representation
00:40:02.27\00:40:04.71
of the different places
00:40:04.74\00:40:05.77
where we've
partnered together to work.
00:40:05.80\00:40:07.51
Yeah, in fact this picture
is a little bit of our footprint
00:40:07.54\00:40:10.80
of what's going on
in the world church.
00:40:10.83\00:40:13.14
Let me tell you
just in a nutshell.
00:40:13.17\00:40:15.31
Maranatha is a
responsive ministry like ASI is.
00:40:15.34\00:40:19.41
You're trying to
respond to desperate needs
00:40:19.44\00:40:22.65
of the world
church in different parts
00:40:22.68\00:40:25.78
places where things are growing.
00:40:25.81\00:40:27.36
If you look at this map
00:40:27.39\00:40:28.65
from one end to
the planet to the other
00:40:28.68\00:40:30.76
there are projects
that Maranatha is doing
00:40:30.79\00:40:33.47
with ASI to make a difference.
00:40:33.50\00:40:35.94
These are places where people...
00:40:35.97\00:40:38.38
don't have a church,
they don't have a school,
00:40:38.41\00:40:40.95
may be they need a well.
00:40:40.98\00:40:42.73
It is heart
wrenching to go to a place
00:40:42.76\00:40:46.27
and see the new members
not having a place to worship
00:40:46.30\00:40:51.38
and that takes us to--
00:40:51.41\00:40:53.39
what's at the
heart of Maranatha.
00:40:53.42\00:40:55.16
That's
volunteers every one of you,
00:40:55.19\00:40:57.98
every one of us can be and go
00:40:58.01\00:40:59.66
and be a part of the project.
00:40:59.69\00:41:01.21
I want to show you something.
00:41:01.24\00:41:02.99
Most people don't
know that about half,
00:41:03.02\00:41:05.55
may be more than half
00:41:05.58\00:41:06.82
of Maranatha
volunteers are young people.
00:41:06.85\00:41:10.35
Maranatha
provides an opportunity
00:41:10.38\00:41:12.50
for young people's
lives to be changed.
00:41:12.53\00:41:15.33
This summer in
fact, just a few days ago
00:41:15.36\00:41:18.67
a project called
Ultimate Workout,
00:41:18.70\00:41:20.51
where 300 young people went down
00:41:20.54\00:41:23.39
to the Dominican
Republic to built projects.
00:41:23.42\00:41:28.43
Guess what happened?
00:41:28.46\00:41:29.92
You think you go down
there to make a difference
00:41:29.95\00:41:32.12
to the project
recipients and you do,
00:41:32.15\00:41:34.22
you build them a church
but there lives our impacted.
00:41:34.25\00:41:39.16
Not only are
their lives impacted
00:41:39.19\00:41:41.11
it leads to a
change in their soul
00:41:41.14\00:41:43.73
and many of them
accept the Jesus.
00:41:43.76\00:41:45.36
In fact, we had a
baptism down there
00:41:45.39\00:41:47.85
and that we see
often on a project.
00:41:47.88\00:41:51.07
It-- its huge, something
else that's interesting.
00:41:51.10\00:41:55.00
A lot of people don't know
00:41:55.03\00:41:56.24
that there is a lot
of project opportunities
00:41:56.27\00:41:58.50
in the United States.
00:41:58.53\00:42:00.97
Believe it or not there
are places in United State
00:42:01.00\00:42:03.15
that do need a
church, and schools
00:42:03.18\00:42:05.77
or the school needs to
be refurbished and painted
00:42:05.80\00:42:09.12
and that provides a
great chances to change lives.
00:42:09.15\00:42:14.21
In the southern
part of the United States
00:42:14.24\00:42:15.93
for example there are projects--
00:42:15.96\00:42:19.28
We call it a standard church,
00:42:19.31\00:42:21.08
it's a very affordable building
00:42:21.11\00:42:23.18
where a lot of
Maranatha volunteers go
00:42:23.21\00:42:25.89
and they help congregations
in the United States
00:42:25.92\00:42:28.29
that can't build a
church, that's happens here.
00:42:28.32\00:42:31.48
Do you have a picture
of one of those churches?
00:42:31.51\00:42:32.74
We do have a
picture of one. There it is.
00:42:32.77\00:42:35.13
It's a very simple church
00:42:35.16\00:42:36.63
so if some of you
have a congregation
00:42:36.66\00:42:41.16
contact Maranatha let us know
00:42:41.19\00:42:43.52
perhaps a building
like that can work for you.
00:42:43.55\00:42:45.72
That is what Maranatha does.
00:42:45.75\00:42:47.12
It helps the church
in areas of great need.
00:42:47.15\00:42:50.90
And I have the last item
00:42:50.93\00:42:52.37
and this is a
partnership project
00:42:52.40\00:42:54.23
between Maranatha and ASI
called the one day project.
00:42:54.26\00:42:59.16
Now two weeks
ago, today in fact,
00:42:59.19\00:43:02.23
I had the
privilege of traveling back
00:43:02.26\00:43:04.23
to the country of Ecuador
00:43:04.26\00:43:05.59
where the first one
day church was built.
00:43:05.62\00:43:10.90
Garvin and a
number of other people
00:43:10.93\00:43:13.04
that went down there
several years ago to build it
00:43:13.07\00:43:18.10
said lets try this,
let's do an experiment.
00:43:18.13\00:43:21.41
I happened to be
there and help built it.
00:43:21.44\00:43:23.11
And we said let's go back.
00:43:23.14\00:43:24.52
So two weeks
ago when I was there
00:43:24.55\00:43:26.33
guess what we found?
00:43:26.36\00:43:27.73
We found a really
nice congregation.
00:43:27.76\00:43:29.52
Now if you look closely,
00:43:29.55\00:43:31.44
it's not a bamboo
structure anymore,
00:43:31.47\00:43:35.33
they've finished
it not completely,
00:43:35.36\00:43:38.26
it's at the stucco point,
but they're working on it.
00:43:38.29\00:43:40.71
And to the left of
the building you will see
00:43:40.74\00:43:44.35
they're putting in classrooms.
00:43:44.38\00:43:46.08
So we asked them
hey, where your members?
00:43:46.11\00:43:48.32
They said, well, here
is a handful of members,
00:43:48.35\00:43:52.75
but our church
has grown and split
00:43:52.78\00:43:56.45
and we have planted
another congregation.
00:43:56.48\00:43:59.05
So the one day project
it is absolutely working.
00:43:59.08\00:44:04.39
Wonderful, wonderful.
00:44:04.42\00:44:05.94
And we'll be
hearing more about that
00:44:05.97\00:44:07.71
throughout the convention.
00:44:07.74\00:44:09.24
Not only will you
be hearing about that,
00:44:09.27\00:44:11.44
there is key critical project
00:44:11.47\00:44:15.53
for the
Seventh-day Adventist Church
00:44:15.56\00:44:17.72
and it's gonna be a key
project for ASI and Maranatha
00:44:17.75\00:44:21.10
and that is in
the country of Angola.
00:44:21.13\00:44:23.27
There is a window
of opportunity there
00:44:23.30\00:44:25.76
and I encourage you
and the television audience
00:44:25.79\00:44:29.03
to please tune in on Sabbath,
00:44:29.06\00:44:31.64
you're gonna hear
about amazing things
00:44:31.67\00:44:33.73
happening in that
country that God is doing.
00:44:33.76\00:44:36.56
Thank you very much, Kenneth.
00:44:36.59\00:44:37.70
We appreciate working
together with Maranatha
00:44:37.73\00:44:40.16
for the spreading of the gospel
and supportive of His work.
00:44:40.19\00:44:42.21
Thank you. Thank you.
00:44:42.24\00:44:44.06
I would like to
bring to your attention
00:44:44.09\00:44:45.40
if you have your guides,
00:44:45.43\00:44:47.28
there is in
your list of projects
00:44:47.31\00:44:50.87
we had an omission,
we wanted to make sure
00:44:50.90\00:44:52.86
that we brought
that to your attention,
00:44:52.89\00:44:54.58
so you would be
familiar with that.
00:44:54.61\00:44:55.90
The Family
Development International,
00:44:55.93\00:44:59.67
more familiarly know
to us as Kibidula Farms
00:44:59.70\00:45:03.46
is one of the
projects for this year
00:45:03.49\00:45:05.45
and the amount of $50,000.
00:45:05.48\00:45:07.42
So we want you
to keep that in mind
00:45:07.45\00:45:09.49
as you consider and pray
for what God can do through you
00:45:09.52\00:45:12.83
to support these projects.
00:45:12.86\00:45:14.46
Thank you and
have a good evening.
00:45:14.49\00:45:16.56
All right thank you, Debbie.
00:45:19.98\00:45:22.07
Good evening again, ASI.
00:45:22.10\00:45:25.06
One of the wonderful things
00:45:25.09\00:45:26.59
about coming to a
convention like this
00:45:26.62\00:45:29.08
is that you get to meet people
from all over the country,
00:45:29.11\00:45:31.17
all over the world
00:45:31.20\00:45:32.51
that are really
doing amazing ministry
00:45:32.54\00:45:34.33
for the Lord Jesus.
00:45:34.36\00:45:35.89
And one of those such
individuals is next to me here,
00:45:35.92\00:45:39.34
Rich Aguilera is the director
00:45:39.37\00:45:41.91
of the One Mustard Seed Ministry
00:45:41.94\00:45:44.66
and he's actually a
new member of ASI, amen.
00:45:44.69\00:45:48.00
He just came last
year to the convention
00:45:48.03\00:45:50.55
but this is your
first convention as a member
00:45:50.58\00:45:53.31
and he's actually
an architect by trade,
00:45:53.34\00:45:56.24
but six years ago God called him
00:45:56.27\00:45:58.54
into full time
ministry and I'm sure that's,
00:45:58.57\00:46:00.39
that's another whole
story we would love to hear.
00:46:00.42\00:46:02.69
But you're also
known as the Mud Guy
00:46:02.72\00:46:06.86
from his column
in Guide Magazine
00:46:06.89\00:46:09.08
and you are the nature host
00:46:09.11\00:46:11.20
for the Kid's
Time program on 3ABN.
00:46:11.23\00:46:13.34
So Rich, we're
glad that you are here.
00:46:13.37\00:46:15.74
Tell us a little bit about
your ministry and what you do?
00:46:15.77\00:46:19.28
Well, God's
definitely make things
00:46:19.31\00:46:21.63
interesting for me
in my life here lately
00:46:21.66\00:46:23.58
since we stepped out in ministry
00:46:23.61\00:46:25.08
we've opened up a
variety of different ministries.
00:46:25.11\00:46:28.15
One of them being
an events ministry,
00:46:28.18\00:46:29.94
so we travel around the
world a lot presenting creation,
00:46:29.97\00:46:33.34
evolution seminars
which may be some of you guys
00:46:33.37\00:46:35.37
have been too
very creative stuff,
00:46:35.40\00:46:36.92
special
effects, geared for kids,
00:46:36.95\00:46:39.15
geared for adults as
well and it's awesome
00:46:39.18\00:46:40.94
because you know,
for example last year
00:46:40.97\00:46:42.88
we went to about 10 countries,
00:46:42.91\00:46:44.30
reached about 150,000 people
in person in around the world.
00:46:44.33\00:46:49.43
People coming up
and there are like man,
00:46:49.46\00:46:50.91
I've just-- I had so many
questions about that topic,
00:46:50.94\00:46:53.34
finally somebody
could-- could give me answers.
00:46:53.37\00:46:55.61
Thank you so much
and little kids coming up
00:46:55.64\00:46:57.27
and hugging you and
now I know what to say
00:46:57.30\00:46:59.76
if somebody ask
me this and that.
00:46:59.79\00:47:01.03
So its been a blessing
during the ministries thing
00:47:01.06\00:47:03.65
we rode on the road
about 20, 25 weekends a year.
00:47:03.68\00:47:07.48
The other thing
that we're involved
00:47:07.51\00:47:08.88
in is a children church.
00:47:08.91\00:47:10.27
We do a children
church ministry locally.
00:47:10.30\00:47:12.35
Our idea is that VBS
is as amazing ministry,
00:47:12.38\00:47:16.50
but unfortunately we
only do it once a year,
00:47:16.53\00:47:19.09
oh, man, so our solution to that
00:47:19.12\00:47:23.00
is to do it every month.
00:47:23.03\00:47:25.15
And I challenge you guys,
00:47:25.18\00:47:26.21
if you guys do children church--
00:47:26.24\00:47:28.78
VBS extended because
our kids need to be reach,
00:47:28.81\00:47:31.84
the community needs to be reach
00:47:31.87\00:47:33.43
more than just once a year.
00:47:33.46\00:47:34.80
So we create basically
a VBSish type of program
00:47:34.83\00:47:38.33
that we present
once a month locally.
00:47:38.36\00:47:40.69
And we have about
100 kids that come in.
00:47:40.72\00:47:42.29
It's great because we
see them in the supermarket,
00:47:42.32\00:47:44.11
we see them in the
stores and they come up to you
00:47:44.14\00:47:46.61
and they hug you in there like,
00:47:46.64\00:47:48.01
we can't wait
for children church
00:47:48.04\00:47:49.43
it's in four days.
00:47:49.46\00:47:51.29
So it's a powerful ministry
00:47:51.32\00:47:52.95
and kids just they
need to be reached,
00:47:52.98\00:47:54.94
I mean that very important.
00:47:54.97\00:47:57.62
During the week we
do a lot of production
00:47:57.65\00:47:59.77
of resources,
DVDs, books, blogs,
00:47:59.80\00:48:03.97
we're trying to get
an apps ministry going
00:48:04.00\00:48:06.40
because we fell like
this is such a powerful way
00:48:06.43\00:48:09.01
to reach our
young people right now
00:48:09.04\00:48:10.23
and we-- I fear sometimes
00:48:10.26\00:48:11.78
that we kind of
dropping the ball on that one.
00:48:11.81\00:48:14.03
So we are trying to
develop some cool apps.
00:48:14.06\00:48:17.02
We also have a new ministry
that were about to launch
00:48:17.05\00:48:20.17
in March of next year
00:48:20.20\00:48:22.96
and this was kids as
you can probably tell by now
00:48:22.99\00:48:25.37
a lot of what we do as for kids,
00:48:25.40\00:48:27.25
but this one's
for kids and families
00:48:27.28\00:48:29.49
because it's a new
branch of our work called
00:48:29.52\00:48:32.04
Christian family adventures.
00:48:32.07\00:48:34.16
Sounds exciting.
00:48:34.19\00:48:35.29
Yeah, it's basically we want to
not just ministered to children
00:48:35.32\00:48:39.32
but really if
you think about it,
00:48:39.35\00:48:40.59
ministering to children comes
with ministering to families.
00:48:40.62\00:48:44.35
And when I was a
kid and everybody
00:48:44.38\00:48:46.16
that I ever talked to say yeah,
00:48:46.19\00:48:47.94
the best
memories I have has a kid
00:48:47.97\00:48:49.61
as when we went on vacation.
00:48:49.64\00:48:51.63
And we need to
build those memories.
00:48:51.66\00:48:53.32
So this ministry basically works
00:48:53.35\00:48:55.37
specifically on
building memories
00:48:55.40\00:48:57.30
through an exotic location
00:48:57.33\00:48:59.14
that I would host five
or six or eight families,
00:48:59.17\00:49:01.93
we're doing fun stuff every day,
00:49:01.96\00:49:03.61
zip lining and
some water safaris
00:49:03.64\00:49:06.13
and we're having cool worships
in the morning and evenings,
00:49:06.16\00:49:08.50
we dedicate one day
for a mini mission trips
00:49:08.53\00:49:11.45
so the kids can get introduced
00:49:11.48\00:49:13.55
to serving and to giving others.
00:49:13.58\00:49:15.69
So it's a one week action
packed spiritual, friends,
00:49:15.72\00:49:20.02
just a everything
build into this week,
00:49:20.05\00:49:22.68
we want to launch that.
00:49:22.71\00:49:24.15
Sign me up,
Rick, Rich, Sound good.
00:49:24.18\00:49:26.19
Sorry, Rich.
00:49:26.22\00:49:27.38
And what is an exotic
location? I'm just curious.
00:49:27.41\00:49:29.13
Well, the first
one that we gonna do
00:49:29.16\00:49:30.50
for spring break of 2015
is gonna be in Costa Rica.
00:49:30.53\00:49:33.61
All right, so--
00:49:33.64\00:49:34.67
We'll be parked at the
base of an active volcano,
00:49:34.70\00:49:37.04
where you can actually
see the lava see coming down.
00:49:37.07\00:49:39.28
We'll zip lining,
well doing river safaris,
00:49:39.31\00:49:41.75
and caving, and
white water rafting,
00:49:41.78\00:49:43.80
its gonna be a thrill.
00:49:43.83\00:49:45.93
And the last one
that I wanted to mention
00:49:45.96\00:49:48.55
even though we do a whole
bunch of different ministries
00:49:48.58\00:49:50.79
is the video production,
00:49:50.82\00:49:52.70
a large part of what
we do is video production.
00:49:52.73\00:49:54.79
Some of you guys had
did the NEDs, VBS curriculum
00:49:54.82\00:49:59.20
this year may have
noticed one of the segments
00:49:59.23\00:50:02.26
is one that I host
called The Big Three,
00:50:02.29\00:50:05.17
and so that's
one of the projects
00:50:05.20\00:50:06.85
I just came back
from Hawaii yesterday
00:50:06.88\00:50:09.73
where we're shooting
next years Big Three.
00:50:09.76\00:50:12.38
We're doing all
sorts of crazy things
00:50:12.41\00:50:14.64
involving sharks and
cages and other things
00:50:14.67\00:50:18.26
you guys gonna have to just
get the stuff for next time.
00:50:18.29\00:50:20.35
Did you get in
the shark cage, Rich?
00:50:20.38\00:50:21.98
I did. I did. Wow.
00:50:22.01\00:50:24.22
And some other
pretty wild stuff,
00:50:24.25\00:50:25.46
but our approach is basically
to use fun and adventure
00:50:25.49\00:50:29.23
to appeal to
young people and old
00:50:29.26\00:50:31.68
and lead them to God
in that-- in that way.
00:50:31.71\00:50:35.03
Amen. Amen.
00:50:35.06\00:50:36.22
Well, Rich, that
sounds really exciting
00:50:36.25\00:50:38.20
what God is doing
through your ministry.
00:50:38.23\00:50:39.37
Now I know you have a
little clip that we can show?
00:50:39.40\00:50:41.47
Yeah, there is a--
00:50:41.50\00:50:42.73
just you guys get
an idea of a video clip
00:50:42.76\00:50:44.85
of one the types of projects
00:50:44.88\00:50:47.04
that we work on
very action, adventurous
00:50:47.07\00:50:48.91
and you can go
head and roll that.
00:50:48.94\00:50:50.84
A lot of stuff for youth
and a lot stuff for adults,
00:51:47.85\00:51:50.78
but have you notice that nobody
00:51:50.81\00:51:51.89
is really
producing films for kids
00:51:51.92\00:51:53.79
and for families
and this alarmed me
00:51:53.82\00:51:56.42
so we're
actually working on that
00:51:56.45\00:51:57.59
as a new part of our ministry
00:51:57.62\00:51:58.76
right now to developing
feature films for kids.
00:51:58.79\00:52:01.25
Amen. Well, praise the Lord.
00:52:01.28\00:52:02.81
How can we find out
more about your ministry
00:52:02.84\00:52:04.90
those of us here at ASI
00:52:04.93\00:52:05.97
or if you
watching on-- on the 3ABN,
00:52:06.00\00:52:08.40
how can we find out
more about what you do?
00:52:08.43\00:52:09.82
Well, our website
is onemustardseed.com
00:52:09.85\00:52:13.38
which is really easy.
00:52:13.41\00:52:14.86
And I will be hanging out
00:52:14.89\00:52:16.23
at the exhibit
hall all week long.
00:52:16.26\00:52:18.40
I will be hanging around
in the Bund of IDA booth,
00:52:18.43\00:52:22.01
who distributes
a lot of our stuff.
00:52:22.04\00:52:23.40
So if you want to find
me I'll be there all week.
00:52:23.43\00:52:25.09
All right, thank
you so much, Rich,
00:52:25.12\00:52:27.72
and May God bless you
00:52:27.75\00:52:29.12
and your One
Mustard Seed Ministry.
00:52:29.15\00:52:30.40
Thanks, Allen,
God bless. All right.
00:52:30.43\00:52:31.78
Praise the Lord.
00:52:31.81\00:52:33.03
It's exciting to see what
our members are doing out there.
00:52:33.06\00:52:36.09
Well, this next handsome
man who is coming out of here,
00:52:36.12\00:52:40.25
his name is Scott Ritsema.
00:52:40.28\00:52:41.80
How many of you know
Scott? Have you seen, amen?
00:52:41.83\00:52:44.40
Well, let me tell you
something about Scott.
00:52:44.43\00:52:46.73
God brought back us together
in this moment here tonight
00:52:46.76\00:52:50.02
because just a few
months ago last December
00:52:50.05\00:52:53.57
he actually came to my church,
00:52:53.60\00:52:55.22
I was pastoring
the Mentone Church,
00:52:55.25\00:52:56.74
near Loma Linda, California
00:52:56.77\00:52:58.49
and we brought
Scott to do a seminar
00:52:58.52\00:53:00.79
for our church
called Media on the Brain.
00:53:00.82\00:53:03.33
It was a really powerful weekend
00:53:03.36\00:53:05.08
and our church
members were really blessed
00:53:05.11\00:53:07.28
by the material
that you presented,
00:53:07.31\00:53:09.61
a two us that we can, Scott,
00:53:09.64\00:53:10.75
so we are so happy to
have you back here at ASI.
00:53:10.78\00:53:13.12
I know you presented
at ASI before and GYC.
00:53:13.15\00:53:16.83
He is actually a
teacher by training,
00:53:16.86\00:53:18.75
but God has called him
now into full time ministry
00:53:18.78\00:53:22.42
to do this Media
on the Brain seminar
00:53:22.45\00:53:24.24
over the last year and half.
00:53:24.27\00:53:25.84
We're excited to have you.
00:53:25.87\00:53:27.02
Scott, I know that
Mentone wasn't the only church
00:53:27.05\00:53:31.94
that you visited
over the last 18 Months.
00:53:31.97\00:53:34.69
No, I've been blown
away time and time again
00:53:34.72\00:53:38.18
by how many doors the Lord
has opened for this message
00:53:38.21\00:53:41.44
and just by quick show of hands,
00:53:41.47\00:53:42.63
how many of you have heard
of or seen Media on the Brain.
00:53:42.66\00:53:46.01
Well, praise the Lord for that.
00:53:46.04\00:53:47.21
The Lord has been--
been on a world win tour
00:53:47.24\00:53:49.91
the past 18 months frankly.
00:53:49.94\00:53:51.52
And just about every
weekend, every Sabbath,
00:53:51.55\00:53:54.20
having an
opportunity to awaken our people
00:53:54.23\00:53:57.35
to the dangerous of
entertainment media.
00:53:57.38\00:54:00.00
And in just is some static's
that might be interesting
00:54:00.03\00:54:02.93
for those who have not heard
00:54:02.96\00:54:04.72
we are actually living in a time
00:54:04.75\00:54:06.37
and earth history right now
00:54:06.40\00:54:07.56
where there are 19 million
00:54:07.59\00:54:09.96
videogame
addicts in America alone.
00:54:09.99\00:54:12.77
Not to mention
five million of those
00:54:12.80\00:54:14.95
are playing 40 hours a week
00:54:14.98\00:54:17.81
and the average screen time
00:54:17.84\00:54:19.31
for the American child
today is over 53 hours a weeks.
00:54:19.34\00:54:21.91
So these are some
serious statistics
00:54:21.94\00:54:23.76
not just applicable
to Seventh-day Adventist,
00:54:23.79\00:54:26.92
my passion, yes, is
to wake us up to the--
00:54:26.95\00:54:29.30
to our need for Christ,
00:54:29.33\00:54:30.87
but also to present
the Three Angles Messages,
00:54:30.90\00:54:33.56
to the lost.
00:54:33.59\00:54:34.67
And so using this
Media on the Brain message
00:54:34.70\00:54:37.88
as a entering wedge is
what really gets me excited
00:54:37.91\00:54:41.45
to really help other
people outside of our church
00:54:41.48\00:54:44.74
not only learn about
the dangerous of media
00:54:44.77\00:54:46.72
in entertainment,
and the love of Christ,
00:54:46.75\00:54:48.29
but to come into present truth.
00:54:48.32\00:54:50.38
Amen.
00:54:50.41\00:54:51.51
Now Scott, I heard
that right here in Michigan,
00:54:51.54\00:54:54.63
not long ago a church
really made this a major
00:54:54.66\00:54:58.09
outreach event
to their community.
00:54:58.12\00:54:59.91
Tell us a little bit
about, how that happened?
00:54:59.94\00:55:01.36
Yes, I-- this spring
was really exciting for me.
00:55:01.39\00:55:04.02
I got to speak at
four evangelical Christian
00:55:04.05\00:55:06.46
home school conventions,
00:55:06.49\00:55:08.22
other churches have
done outreach events
00:55:08.25\00:55:09.88
using Media on the
Brain, Colorado, Maine,
00:55:09.91\00:55:13.01
Michigan, one Michigan church,
00:55:13.04\00:55:14.57
Charlotte,
Michigan a small town,
00:55:14.60\00:55:16.92
but they had a
big outreach push.
00:55:16.95\00:55:19.18
The way that
they perused this was,
00:55:19.21\00:55:20.98
they went out into the community
00:55:21.01\00:55:22.59
and made this a community event
00:55:22.62\00:55:25.17
to be held on a Sabbath evening.
00:55:25.20\00:55:26.95
Well, what really
amazed me, you know,
00:55:26.98\00:55:29.08
I thought may be we
would see a handful of visitors
00:55:29.11\00:55:30.90
in a small town like this right?
00:55:30.93\00:55:33.31
No, the visitors
were streaming in the door
00:55:33.34\00:55:36.54
and we were all going to wow,
00:55:36.57\00:55:38.13
this church full
and half of them.
00:55:38.16\00:55:40.95
The pastor told me half of them
00:55:40.98\00:55:42.27
were not Seventh-day Adventists,
00:55:42.30\00:55:43.93
and they were visitors.
00:55:43.96\00:55:45.00
So praise the Lord for
that, they made many contacts
00:55:45.03\00:55:47.61
that they are
following up on even now.
00:55:47.64\00:55:49.48
One contact that I
personally made was,
00:55:49.51\00:55:52.05
a family that had
listened to the message
00:55:52.08\00:55:53.82
at a home school convention
00:55:53.85\00:55:55.34
and came to this
local event in Charlotte.
00:55:55.37\00:55:58.67
They have now
developed their friendship
00:55:58.70\00:56:00.62
with my wife and I
00:56:00.65\00:56:01.84
to the point where they're
telling us, you know, what?
00:56:01.87\00:56:04.17
We're frustrated
with the churches
00:56:04.20\00:56:06.54
that we've been part of,
00:56:06.57\00:56:07.93
in the
evangelical Christian world.
00:56:07.96\00:56:09.65
They're telling
me they're so worldly
00:56:09.68\00:56:11.43
and they actually ask me this.
00:56:11.46\00:56:12.68
They said Scott,
00:56:12.71\00:56:14.02
is the
Seventh-day Adventist Church
00:56:14.05\00:56:16.33
a church that has high standards
00:56:16.36\00:56:18.83
with regards to
media and in modesty
00:56:18.86\00:56:21.45
and other lifestyle issues,
00:56:21.48\00:56:22.72
but also a loving conception
of God as seen in Jesus.
00:56:22.75\00:56:27.73
You talk about us
softball question,
00:56:27.76\00:56:29.29
this is what we're all about,
right brothers and sisters?
00:56:29.32\00:56:32.03
The world is hungry for this.
00:56:32.06\00:56:33.86
Christians
outside in these churches
00:56:33.89\00:56:36.45
are hungry for the truth
00:56:36.48\00:56:38.73
and so to be able
to use this is outreach
00:56:38.76\00:56:40.83
has been just the
greatest pleasure in my life.
00:56:40.86\00:56:43.21
Praise God, so you
really able to meet
00:56:43.24\00:56:45.02
a need in our communities
through your seminars,
00:56:45.05\00:56:47.91
praise the Lord for how
He is using you in that way.
00:56:47.94\00:56:49.98
Now Scott, I know that you've
got a lot more invitations
00:56:50.01\00:56:52.90
to come to churches
then you're able to handle.
00:56:52.93\00:56:55.54
Well, then numbers
of Sabbaths available
00:56:55.57\00:56:58.00
and I've heard
that-- you told me
00:56:58.03\00:57:00.49
that there is
something you're doing
00:57:00.52\00:57:02.05
to make it
possible for more people
00:57:02.08\00:57:03.71
to hear what you're doing
00:57:03.74\00:57:04.95
even if they can't
have you on a Sabbath.
00:57:04.98\00:57:06.36
Yes, the Lord
birthed a-- an idea
00:57:06.39\00:57:09.52
within our ministry to
do more than just one man
00:57:09.55\00:57:13.03
geographically in
one proximate location.
00:57:13.06\00:57:16.25
We have-- we have
what's called a virtual seminar
00:57:16.28\00:57:18.67
now where churches all
through out the country
00:57:18.70\00:57:21.33
are hosting events where
they're doing a screening
00:57:21.36\00:57:24.39
of abbreviated media
on the brain seminar,
00:57:24.42\00:57:27.63
making it an outreach events,
00:57:27.66\00:57:29.61
developing those context
00:57:29.64\00:57:31.28
and winning
souls to the process.
00:57:31.31\00:57:33.44
In fact, I
believe they have a clip
00:57:33.47\00:57:34.81
of some of what
that virtual seminar is.
00:57:34.84\00:57:37.07
Let's tune into
that if that's there.
00:57:37.10\00:57:39.71
What they're learned is that
00:57:39.74\00:57:41.19
what we see with our
eyes our brain interprets it
00:57:41.22\00:57:44.99
as if we are doing it ourselves,
00:57:45.02\00:57:47.22
not merely seeing it.
00:57:47.25\00:57:49.23
He's coming from a
secular point of view here,
00:57:49.26\00:57:51.46
he's saying these
producers of Hollywood
00:57:51.49\00:57:53.51
they are the high priests
00:57:53.54\00:57:55.23
of this new secularized religion
00:57:55.26\00:57:58.55
in our scientifically
crafted and engineered society.
00:57:58.58\00:58:02.20
They are the one's,
the producers of Hollywood
00:58:02.23\00:58:04.61
are the one's that can
get uniformity to happen,
00:58:04.64\00:58:07.49
get everybody
thinking in the way
00:58:07.52\00:58:09.35
that we need them to think.
00:58:09.38\00:58:11.13
Where is the
Halloween deceptive philosophy
00:58:11.16\00:58:12.95
of this world today?
00:58:12.98\00:58:14.01
It's been put out
through the entertainment media
00:58:14.04\00:58:16.52
and we are called to
not be taken captive by it.
00:58:16.55\00:58:20.47
But rather we are to
take every thought captive.
00:58:20.50\00:58:24.12
But we are going to
look at music itself,
00:58:24.15\00:58:26.49
what are the effects
of music upon physiology,
00:58:26.52\00:58:29.28
upon neurology,
upon spirituality.
00:58:29.31\00:58:32.09
And how can we understand music
00:58:32.12\00:58:33.50
as a motive communication
and as a control mechanism.
00:58:33.53\00:58:36.85
Five million gamers
playing 40 hours a week.
00:58:36.88\00:58:40.60
May be you're uncomfortable
00:58:43.81\00:58:44.89
with real you like
the gamming culture
00:58:44.92\00:58:46.56
we talk about so you create
a social networking persona
00:58:46.59\00:58:50.01
that's not real.
00:58:50.04\00:58:51.67
You can fell better
about yourself on Facebook
00:58:51.70\00:58:53.81
than you do when you're
in real life conversation.
00:58:53.84\00:58:56.32
We have this ADD
generation formula
00:58:56.35\00:58:58.96
where we can't have our
attention focused on something,
00:58:58.99\00:59:02.01
there is always the
potential for an interruption.
00:59:02.04\00:59:04.51
More media, more entertainment
00:59:08.54\00:59:10.12
and I'll be happier unless
for the opposite is the truth.
00:59:10.15\00:59:12.68
The more media and
the more entertainment
00:59:12.71\00:59:14.47
the less happy you are
and the more bored you are.
00:59:14.50\00:59:17.61
When the Holy
Spirit comes into our lives
00:59:17.64\00:59:19.75
and clears out anything
that's in between me and God,
00:59:19.78\00:59:24.96
what comes out the next
morning is the truth about God,
00:59:24.99\00:59:28.60
that He who was
His closest people said
00:59:28.63\00:59:30.74
and He was as beautiful
as people said and I go wow,
00:59:30.77\00:59:34.78
I never realized
that a spiritual walk
00:59:34.81\00:59:37.37
with Jesus Christ
could be this wonderful.
00:59:37.40\00:59:40.92
Well, Scott, we
praise God for your ministry
00:59:40.95\00:59:42.71
and for those of us here
they want to find out more,
00:59:42.74\00:59:45.06
how can they find out
more about your ministry
00:59:45.09\00:59:47.72
and bringing you
to their local area
00:59:47.75\00:59:50.00
or more
information for their friends?
00:59:50.03\00:59:51.45
I look forward
to talking to folks
00:59:51.48\00:59:53.42
and folks in the booth area.
00:59:53.45\00:59:55.09
Booth 245, and also for
those viewing on the TV,
00:59:55.12\00:59:59.30
you can look us up on the web,
00:59:59.33\01:00:01.13
Belt of Truth Ministries
01:00:01.16\01:00:03.38
or you can just
Google media on the brain
01:00:03.41\01:00:05.21
it's the top link so.
01:00:05.24\01:00:06.40
All right, sounds good.
Thank you so much, Scott.
01:00:06.43\01:00:08.57
Amen.
01:00:08.60\01:00:09.66
Well, I have a
couple other friends
01:00:09.69\01:00:12.18
that are coming out at this time
01:00:12.21\01:00:13.24
and I've got little something,
01:00:13.27\01:00:15.34
I know you
probably can't see this,
01:00:15.37\01:00:17.01
but does any one
know what this is?
01:00:17.04\01:00:19.66
It is a-- hey, I just
want to share this with you
01:00:19.69\01:00:24.63
incase you have
something need to--
01:00:24.66\01:00:26.03
you need to do
in your spare time.
01:00:26.06\01:00:27.11
Well, thank you, I have about
01:00:27.14\01:00:28.27
million of these
in the warehouse.
01:00:28.30\01:00:29.33
Oh, do you? Okay.
01:00:29.36\01:00:30.63
Well, this is Nelson Ernst,
01:00:30.66\01:00:32.76
he is the GLOW director for
the Pacific Union Conference
01:00:32.79\01:00:35.14
and next to him is Kamil,
01:00:35.17\01:00:38.08
and Kamil Metz is the
International GLOW director
01:00:38.11\01:00:42.44
and he' also leads a
ministries here in Michigan.
01:00:42.47\01:00:44.56
Gentlemen, we're
glad to have you here.
01:00:44.59\01:00:46.57
Tell us a little bit--
01:00:46.60\01:00:48.09
well, Nelson, the GLOW
started just seven years ago
01:00:48.12\01:00:50.98
and it's grown
exponentially to this point.
01:00:51.01\01:00:53.88
Tell us how it's going?
How big is GLOW getting now?
01:00:53.91\01:00:56.70
Well, it's a lot of people
are passing our literature
01:00:56.73\01:00:59.32
and in fact, this last
camp meeting over in California,
01:00:59.35\01:01:03.19
I had a brother
come at me and tell me
01:01:03.22\01:01:05.29
that he illegally
printed 50,000 of our tracks off
01:01:05.32\01:01:07.89
somewhere in Asia.
01:01:07.92\01:01:08.97
Did he do?
01:01:09.00\01:01:10.10
Yeah, that brought our
total up to 380,100, 5000 tracks
01:01:10.13\01:01:14.50
in about 42 different languages.
01:01:14.53\01:01:16.60
So yeah, it's growing,
01:01:16.63\01:01:18.71
people are
passing out the literature
01:01:18.74\01:01:20.28
and more and more
we find that people
01:01:20.31\01:01:21.78
out side of the United
States are taking the tracks
01:01:21.81\01:01:23.56
and they're
distributing them too.
01:01:23.59\01:01:24.66
In fact, a story,
some Polish young people
01:01:24.69\01:01:28.51
approached us not too long ago
01:01:28.54\01:01:30.34
and at the Euro cup
was coming to their country
01:01:30.37\01:01:32.87
and they decided, we
want to take your tracks,
01:01:32.90\01:01:34.27
translate them in to Polish,
01:01:34.30\01:01:35.92
print half a million of
them and then distribute them--
01:01:35.95\01:01:38.20
distribute these
things at the Euro cup games.
01:01:38.23\01:01:40.04
So that's what
they did and well,
01:01:40.07\01:01:41.58
one of those brothers was--
01:01:41.61\01:01:42.85
was in the Euro cup
crowds passing out literature,
01:01:42.88\01:01:46.05
GLOW tracks in
Polish he got pick pocketed,
01:01:46.08\01:01:48.93
the problem is that
they got the wrong pocket.
01:01:48.96\01:01:51.94
They got his pack of
GLOW tracks in his one pocket.
01:01:51.97\01:01:54.38
Or may be they
got the right pocket,
01:01:54.41\01:01:55.46
but anyway they got the truth.
01:01:55.49\01:01:57.24
Amen. So, yeah, it's growing.
01:01:57.27\01:01:58.95
Amen, amen, amen.
01:01:58.98\01:02:02.01
So this really growing.
01:02:02.04\01:02:03.87
And Kamil, I know
there is got to be a reason
01:02:03.90\01:02:06.02
for why this is happening?
01:02:06.05\01:02:07.11
Tell us why Glow is
growing so exponentially?
01:02:07.14\01:02:11.33
Kyle, mike.
01:02:11.36\01:02:13.05
I think one reason
is, it is inspired,
01:02:13.08\01:02:16.71
in the colporteur you read about
01:02:16.74\01:02:18.78
how wind be sharing books,
01:02:18.81\01:02:20.39
papers and tracks,
and it's been happing,
01:02:20.42\01:02:23.68
we had tracks
for many, many years
01:02:23.71\01:02:26.13
but young people
got hold of this idea.
01:02:26.16\01:02:28.45
They came together,
they study, they prayed,
01:02:28.48\01:02:30.90
they organized,
they went to churches
01:02:30.93\01:02:33.90
and preached and
we have responded.
01:02:33.93\01:02:37.49
I'm glad that we as a
church have embraced an idea
01:02:37.52\01:02:41.41
that our young
people came up with.
01:02:41.44\01:02:43.24
Amen, amen.
01:02:43.27\01:02:44.30
And I think
that's-- that's a big reason
01:02:44.33\01:02:46.54
young people are behind this.
01:02:46.57\01:02:47.75
Amen, amen. Praise the Lord.
01:02:47.78\01:02:48.97
Another reason, Kyle,
just before you move on here,
01:02:49.00\01:02:51.15
why it's going so quickly
01:02:51.18\01:02:54.36
is because it's very simple
01:02:54.39\01:02:55.81
anybody can pass
out a Bible pamphlet
01:02:55.84\01:02:58.21
and we just have story
after story about simple ways
01:02:58.24\01:03:00.67
of people are
distributing tracks.
01:03:00.70\01:03:01.80
How hard it is, Nelson?
01:03:01.83\01:03:03.25
Well, I mean you
just illustrated it.
01:03:03.28\01:03:04.74
You basically pull out a track,
if you have an opposable thumb
01:03:04.77\01:03:07.02
you can grab a
piece of literature
01:03:07.05\01:03:08.20
and give it to somebody.
01:03:08.23\01:03:09.35
We actually have a brother
who lives in Texas, Kyle,
01:03:09.38\01:03:12.47
and he only has one arm,
01:03:12.50\01:03:14.42
and this guy has distributed
over three million tracks
01:03:14.45\01:03:17.29
the last I talked to him
over a year and a half ago.
01:03:17.32\01:03:19.76
So anybody can do
this, it's very, very simple.
01:03:19.79\01:03:22.90
So guys tell us--
01:03:22.93\01:03:25.06
I know there's a
lot of amazing stories
01:03:25.09\01:03:26.88
about how God has worked
through the GLOW ministry,
01:03:26.91\01:03:29.84
may be tell us a
couple of stories about just--
01:03:29.87\01:03:32.64
how the Lord has
used this to reach people?
01:03:32.67\01:03:34.31
Sure.
01:03:34.34\01:03:35.40
One of things we've done is,
01:03:35.43\01:03:36.52
we have tried to
find public places
01:03:36.55\01:03:38.96
where put a GLOW rack,
01:03:38.99\01:03:40.62
okay, so at Laundromat,
Christian book store,
01:03:40.65\01:03:43.75
your business, dentist office,
01:03:43.78\01:03:45.53
doctor's office and there was--
01:03:45.56\01:03:47.88
there was a Seventh-day
Adventist person in Michigan
01:03:47.91\01:03:51.43
who place a GLOW rack
in a Christian book store.
01:03:51.46\01:03:54.19
And a man walked in one time
01:03:54.22\01:03:56.28
and he picked up
the track on Sabbath.
01:03:56.31\01:03:58.36
He came home, he read it.
01:03:58.39\01:04:00.41
He went right back to
the Christian book store
01:04:00.44\01:04:03.25
and he said, now you
have the Sabbath track here,
01:04:03.28\01:04:06.05
but you don't
follow what it says
01:04:06.08\01:04:08.02
'cause you are open on Saturday.
01:04:08.05\01:04:10.99
They read it and now
they close on Saturday, okay.
01:04:11.02\01:04:15.37
So one great way
the weekend participate
01:04:15.40\01:04:18.58
actually place GLOW racks
01:04:18.61\01:04:22.03
in businesses and other places.
01:04:22.06\01:04:23.93
Amen. Amen.
01:04:23.96\01:04:25.56
What was really needed
about this whole project
01:04:25.59\01:04:27.87
is that we have also use
it for big city evangelism.
01:04:27.90\01:04:31.90
Like last year we produced this
custom made prophecy GLOW track
01:04:31.93\01:04:36.68
that we used in Detroit,
01:04:36.71\01:04:38.35
a man read it came to
the meetings was baptized
01:04:38.38\01:04:41.27
and now this year
we've used same GLOW track
01:04:41.30\01:04:46.95
for the big city of
evangelism right here,
01:04:46.98\01:04:48.63
ASI prophecy meetings.
01:04:48.66\01:04:50.42
That man was in
charge of the website
01:04:50.45\01:04:53.55
for the ASI prophesies meetings.
01:04:53.58\01:04:56.31
So you can see you
know, we have invested,
01:04:56.34\01:04:58.23
we have sown seeds
01:04:58.26\01:05:00.63
and we have read
the results that way.
01:05:00.66\01:05:04.71
So you can share
that with people,
01:05:04.74\01:05:06.74
but also our website is setup
to do social media evangelism,
01:05:06.77\01:05:12.41
like I have this,
this track called,
01:05:12.44\01:05:13.97
Why I Go to Church on Saturday,
01:05:14.00\01:05:16.11
okay, so we took this
track we posted on Facebook page
01:05:16.14\01:05:21.01
and people repost and re-shared,
01:05:21.04\01:05:23.60
in just one week
01:05:23.63\01:05:25.17
we had 58,000 unique
visitors to our website
01:05:25.20\01:05:29.39
because of one Facebook post.
01:05:29.42\01:05:31.94
We had 150 Bible study requests
01:05:31.97\01:05:35.09
and it just went
all over the world.
01:05:35.12\01:05:36.64
We had people
from this Saudi Arabia.
01:05:36.67\01:05:38.63
I mean, we had from
every part of the world
01:05:38.66\01:05:41.29
people were
reading the Sabbath track.
01:05:41.32\01:05:44.14
Amen. Thank you, Kamil.
01:05:44.17\01:05:45.45
Nelson, I know
you've got so many stories
01:05:45.48\01:05:47.88
may be just one
more really powerful one.
01:05:47.91\01:05:49.51
Sure.
01:05:49.54\01:05:50.62
Well, own personal
experience is always the best.
01:05:50.65\01:05:53.62
I was out taking people to do
01:05:53.65\01:05:55.97
GLOW distribution on
Halloween, a few years ago,
01:05:56.00\01:05:58.90
and as I was
passing out tracks myself,
01:05:58.93\01:06:00.46
I pumped in to a guy who
is-- who is a full grown man,
01:06:00.49\01:06:02.64
wearing a banana suit.
01:06:02.67\01:06:04.01
A banana suit? A banana suit.
01:06:04.04\01:06:06.12
And I was like
this is interesting
01:06:06.15\01:06:08.36
and so I went up to
him and I said brother,
01:06:08.39\01:06:09.81
hey, check this
out, so I gave him some--
01:06:09.84\01:06:11.68
some GLOW tracks and
he said these are great.
01:06:11.71\01:06:13.45
And so he
actually took a whole stack
01:06:13.48\01:06:14.72
so that he can distribute them.
01:06:14.75\01:06:16.42
And you know the
banana and I were split
01:06:16.45\01:06:18.84
and he went his
way and I went mine,
01:06:18.87\01:06:20.86
in about half an
hour later I met this guy,
01:06:20.89\01:06:23.14
this banana guy.
01:06:23.17\01:06:24.53
Was he still in
it? He was, yeah.
01:06:24.56\01:06:27.14
And you know, and he found
the track appealing obviously
01:06:27.17\01:06:30.80
because he distributed
them to all kinds of people.
01:06:30.83\01:06:33.04
We met again half an hour
later on a different street
01:06:33.07\01:06:35.24
and he'd gotten
rid of all this tracks
01:06:35.27\01:06:36.52
and he asked for
whole another stack.
01:06:36.55\01:06:38.30
So I mean the
moral of this story is--
01:06:38.33\01:06:39.95
you know, random
non-Adventist banana
01:06:39.98\01:06:41.62
can pass out literature in
Halloween night, we can do it.
01:06:41.65\01:06:43.56
Amen. Amen.
01:06:43.59\01:06:44.64
Very simple.
01:06:44.67\01:06:45.78
And if you want
to come and hear me
01:06:45.81\01:06:47.10
I will tell you a
personal testimony,
01:06:47.13\01:06:48.71
we're out of time,
but there is a young lady
01:06:48.74\01:06:50.68
that I had the
privilege of baptizing last year
01:06:50.71\01:06:53.24
because she received a
GLOW track on Halloween night
01:06:53.27\01:06:55.40
in her Halloween candy basket.
01:06:55.43\01:06:57.80
So praise the Lord.
GLOW is a powerful ministry.
01:06:57.83\01:06:59.70
If you want to
find out more guys,
01:06:59.73\01:07:00.96
how do we find out more about
getting involved with GLOW?
01:07:00.99\01:07:02.84
Go to our booth L-500
01:07:02.87\01:07:04.64
or visit our
website sdaglow.org.
01:07:04.67\01:07:08.80
Amen. Thanks.
01:07:08.83\01:07:10.46
I have been
given the pleasant duty
01:07:15.37\01:07:17.11
of a introducing
our speaker this--
01:07:17.14\01:07:19.10
for this evening,
01:07:19.13\01:07:20.54
our speaker for this
evening is Pastor Chris Holland.
01:07:20.57\01:07:24.09
He pastored for 14
years and then he had--
01:07:24.12\01:07:27.87
we had the distinct
pleasure of working with Chris
01:07:27.90\01:07:31.16
here as a
secretary treasury of ASI,
01:07:31.19\01:07:33.93
but it's only a
last of it short time
01:07:33.96\01:07:35.94
he got called to be
the speaker director
01:07:35.97\01:07:38.34
of It Is Written, Canada
and there is no doubt in mind,
01:07:38.37\01:07:42.40
because we've
heard him speak before
01:07:42.43\01:07:44.41
that he's going to be good.
01:07:44.44\01:07:45.91
The Lord is going to use him,
01:07:45.94\01:07:47.32
and we're going to be
blessed by his efforts tonight.
01:07:47.35\01:07:50.11
God bless you.
01:07:50.14\01:07:51.57
Good evening.
01:07:58.81\01:08:01.11
The song that
we're going to sing
01:08:01.14\01:08:03.18
is in the language
Chichewa from Malawi
01:08:03.21\01:08:05.82
and it says that
when we get to heaven
01:08:05.85\01:08:08.11
God is going to receive us
01:08:08.14\01:08:09.55
and we're going to sing
Hosana and live in peace.
01:08:09.58\01:08:12.91
And to express
that happiness and joy
01:08:12.94\01:08:15.02
we're gonna use our
hand motions to sing Hosana.
01:08:15.05\01:08:18.13
Good evening, ASI.
01:12:07.23\01:12:10.24
Good to see you all.
01:12:10.27\01:12:13.06
I stood here in
front of you a year ago,
01:12:13.09\01:12:16.79
I was your secretary treasurer.
01:12:16.82\01:12:19.82
Sometimes God
works in serious ways
01:12:19.85\01:12:22.30
that become
potential to understand.
01:12:22.33\01:12:24.48
[Indistinct chatter]
01:12:24.51\01:12:26.50
Okay, we'll use that, wonderful.
01:12:45.31\01:12:49.19
You know, folks I want
to ask for your prayers for,
01:12:49.22\01:12:51.34
It Is Written, Canada.
01:12:51.37\01:12:53.10
It Is Written,
Canada the ministry
01:12:53.13\01:12:55.07
that I'm now
leading is uniquely poised
01:12:55.10\01:12:58.34
to do something that
many media ministries
01:12:58.37\01:13:00.62
do not have the
opportunity to do.
01:13:00.65\01:13:03.81
It Is Written, Canada
has secured contract with CTV
01:13:03.84\01:13:07.69
which is the
equivalent of ABC or NBC
01:13:07.72\01:13:10.81
or CBS here in the States
01:13:10.84\01:13:13.24
and we secured that contract
01:13:13.27\01:13:16.73
and in securing that contract
01:13:16.76\01:13:20.01
we have access
to 98% of the homes
01:13:20.04\01:13:24.28
of the 40 million Canadians.
01:13:24.31\01:13:27.95
Just before I left to on
our camp meeting circuit,
01:13:27.98\01:13:32.76
our negotiator
called me and in something
01:13:32.79\01:13:36.12
that is
absolutely unprecedented,
01:13:36.15\01:13:38.93
CTV as we negotiated
01:13:38.96\01:13:41.12
raised our rate per week by 0%,
01:13:41.15\01:13:46.05
which is unheard of.
01:13:46.08\01:13:48.15
Jesus is leading this ministry
01:13:48.18\01:13:50.34
and I would just ask
that you keep us in prayer.
01:13:50.37\01:13:53.78
We have been also
uniquely positioned
01:13:53.81\01:13:56.10
through the
studio that we rented
01:13:56.13\01:13:58.40
that our set is
permanently setup in this studio
01:13:58.43\01:14:01.81
that we can record current items
01:14:01.84\01:14:04.68
and we have recently
recorded a series on Noah,
01:14:04.71\01:14:07.67
addressing the movie that
had a little to do with Noah
01:14:07.70\01:14:10.70
and little to do with
the real character of God.
01:14:10.73\01:14:13.67
We're able to film a
series on Is Heaven For Real,
01:14:13.70\01:14:18.23
again addressing this
recent movie that came out.
01:14:18.26\01:14:22.39
Friends, we have plans
for a studio in our office
01:14:22.42\01:14:27.10
and in that studio
01:14:27.13\01:14:28.71
we are going to be
able to do live programming.
01:14:28.74\01:14:31.38
We're also gonna
do live lay training,
01:14:31.41\01:14:33.96
and then continued
networking of that lay training.
01:14:33.99\01:14:38.52
And so friends,
I just want to ask
01:14:38.55\01:14:40.02
that you keep our
ministry in prayer.
01:14:40.05\01:14:42.19
I would encourage you to stop
by booth 600B to learn more,
01:14:42.22\01:14:45.73
and you can also
receive a free sampler DVD
01:14:45.76\01:14:48.21
of our three series
that we've done together.
01:14:48.24\01:14:51.40
If you don't mind I just
like to have a word of prayer
01:14:51.43\01:14:54.22
once again as we
start, let's pray.
01:14:54.25\01:14:57.81
Heavenly Father, we are grateful
01:14:57.84\01:14:59.38
for the opportunity to come
01:14:59.41\01:15:00.74
and to be a part of
this movement of destiny
01:15:00.77\01:15:06.25
that You've called forth.
01:15:06.28\01:15:07.98
Tonight as we spend
some time in Your word Lord,
01:15:08.01\01:15:10.69
we know that Your word is truth.
01:15:10.72\01:15:13.99
And so we pray for Your spirit
to lead us into all truth,
01:15:14.02\01:15:18.29
convict us of sin,
convict us righteousness
01:15:18.32\01:15:21.92
and convict us of
the judgment to come.
01:15:21.95\01:15:24.66
We pray in Jesus name, amen.
01:15:24.69\01:15:28.88
The title of the message
this evening is, why Adventist?
01:15:28.91\01:15:31.42
Why now?
01:15:31.45\01:15:33.11
And as I prayed
about ASI 2014 wondering
01:15:33.14\01:15:36.90
what is the message
for these folks of ASI.
01:15:36.93\01:15:41.50
I believe the Lord
led me to the answer
01:15:41.53\01:15:43.60
and that is to the relevance
01:15:43.63\01:15:44.76
of the
Seventh-day Adventists Church
01:15:44.79\01:15:46.14
in the 21st century.
01:15:46.17\01:15:48.09
See friends, we
are in a culture,
01:15:48.12\01:15:49.79
we are in a society that is
comforted in denominationalism
01:15:49.82\01:15:55.05
and many have simply
relegated Seventh-day Adventism
01:15:55.08\01:15:58.71
to just another denomination,
just another choice.
01:15:58.74\01:16:03.56
They say we are just one option
01:16:03.59\01:16:05.13
among the many options
01:16:05.16\01:16:06.61
of the crowded
environment of Christianity.
01:16:06.64\01:16:09.98
In fact, the world
Christian encyclopedia says
01:16:10.01\01:16:12.60
that they are 38,000
Christian denominations.
01:16:12.63\01:16:19.04
In fact, in some realms
there has been an attempt
01:16:19.07\01:16:23.02
to make
Seventh-day Adventism look,
01:16:23.05\01:16:26.00
sound, worship and
train like everyone else.
01:16:26.03\01:16:31.23
And in so doing in many circles
01:16:31.26\01:16:34.64
the Seventh-day Adventist Church
01:16:34.67\01:16:35.88
has simply been dismissed
01:16:35.91\01:16:37.70
in to the realm of
irrelevance and insignificance.
01:16:37.73\01:16:42.67
So the question we
must ask is why Adventist?
01:16:42.70\01:16:45.83
Why now?
01:16:45.86\01:16:46.99
Is Adventism relevant today?
01:16:49.06\01:16:52.32
And so I'm going to invite you
01:16:52.35\01:16:53.43
to open your Bibles
to Revelation 12th--
01:16:53.46\01:16:55.85
excuse me Daniel 12
01:16:55.88\01:16:58.76
and there in Daniel 12:5-10,
01:16:58.79\01:17:04.05
they're verses that
you are familiar with.
01:17:04.08\01:17:07.66
This what Daniel wrote
"Then I, Daniel, looked,
01:17:07.69\01:17:10.66
and there stood two others,
01:17:10.69\01:17:12.82
one on this riverbank
01:17:12.85\01:17:13.92
and the other on that riverbank.
01:17:13.95\01:17:15.39
And one said to the
man clothed in linen,
01:17:15.42\01:17:17.86
who was above the
waters of the river,
01:17:17.89\01:17:19.69
'How long shall the fulfillment
of these wonders be?'
01:17:19.72\01:17:23.86
Then I heard the
man clothed in linen,
01:17:23.89\01:17:25.91
who was above the
waters of the river,
01:17:25.94\01:17:27.64
when he held up his right hand
and his left hand to heaven,
01:17:27.67\01:17:30.82
and swore by Him
who lives forever,
01:17:30.85\01:17:33.54
that it shall be for a
time, times, and half a time
01:17:33.57\01:17:37.94
and when the
power of the holy people
01:17:37.97\01:17:39.55
has been completely shattered,
01:17:39.58\01:17:41.21
all these things
shall be finished.
01:17:41.24\01:17:46.08
Although I heard,
I did not understand.
01:17:46.11\01:17:48.70
Then I said, 'My lord,
01:17:48.73\01:17:50.03
what shall be the
end of these things?'
01:17:50.06\01:17:52.02
And he said, 'Go
your way, Daniel,
01:17:52.05\01:17:54.21
for the words are closed up
01:17:54.24\01:17:55.57
and sealed till
the time of the end.
01:17:55.60\01:17:57.93
Many shall be
purified,'" many, excuse me
01:17:57.96\01:18:00.54
"'Many shall be purified
made white, and refined,
01:18:00.57\01:18:03.35
but the wicked shall do wickedly
01:18:03.38\01:18:04.83
and none of the
wicked shall understand,
01:18:04.86\01:18:07.10
but the wise shall understand.'"
01:18:07.13\01:18:10.10
Friends, I want
you to take notice
01:18:10.13\01:18:11.42
as we look here at
this portion of Daniel.
01:18:11.45\01:18:14.79
Daniel is
instructed to seal up the book.
01:18:14.82\01:18:17.69
He's instructed
to seal up the book.
01:18:17.72\01:18:19.38
Now let me ask you a question,
01:18:19.41\01:18:20.46
this is ASI so I
know you know the answer.
01:18:20.49\01:18:22.67
Is the entire
Book of Daniel sealed?
01:18:22.70\01:18:24.59
No. No.
01:18:24.62\01:18:25.66
Did Daniel
understand Daniel Chapter 2?
01:18:25.69\01:18:28.16
Of course he
understood Daniel Chapter 2.
01:18:28.19\01:18:30.06
Did Daniel
understand Daniel Chapter 7?
01:18:30.09\01:18:32.75
Of course he
understood Daniel Chapter 7.
01:18:32.78\01:18:35.42
Did he understand a
portion of Daniel Chapter 8?
01:18:35.45\01:18:38.68
He did in fact, because
the angel explained it to him
01:18:38.71\01:18:41.29
and Daniel understood
portions of Daniel Chapter 9.
01:18:41.32\01:18:44.63
But what is it that Daniel
specifically did not understand
01:18:44.66\01:18:49.32
as he was given vision,
01:18:49.35\01:18:51.24
that vision of the 2,300 days?
01:18:51.27\01:18:53.37
In fact, in Daniel 8:27
01:18:53.40\01:18:56.50
Daniel reacts
and what does he say
01:18:56.53\01:18:58.38
"I, Daniel, fainted
and was sick for days,
01:18:58.41\01:19:01.37
afterward I arose and
went about the king's business.
01:19:01.40\01:19:04.42
And I was
astonished by the vision,
01:19:04.45\01:19:08.04
but no one understood it."
01:19:08.07\01:19:10.01
This word astonished
in the Hebrew literally
01:19:10.04\01:19:12.10
means to be
desolate or appalled.
01:19:12.13\01:19:16.09
He didn't understand the
vision of the 2,300 days,
01:19:16.12\01:19:18.83
and God in his grace and mercy
01:19:18.86\01:19:21.11
did not reveal to Daniel
the answer of the 2,300 days
01:19:21.14\01:19:25.93
because had He Daniel would
likely have been overwhelmed.
01:19:25.96\01:19:31.99
So Daniel
looked for explanation,
01:19:32.02\01:19:33.83
but he did not have it
01:19:33.86\01:19:34.94
but God in His
great mercy gave Daniel,
01:19:34.97\01:19:37.75
Daniel Chapter 9
when Daniel prayed
01:19:37.78\01:19:39.81
oh, Lord, when will You
deliver us from Babylon?
01:19:39.84\01:19:42.54
And God told him
when He would deliver them
01:19:42.57\01:19:45.41
from sin and the
permanence deliverance--
01:19:45.44\01:19:48.66
the permanent deliverance
of the coming Messiah.
01:19:48.69\01:19:52.17
But Daniel as he standing
in closing out this book
01:19:52.20\01:19:56.28
the angel tells him that
he needs to seal up that book.
01:19:56.31\01:19:59.22
He needs to seal up that
book until the time of the end.
01:19:59.25\01:20:03.06
And then the
angel explains to him
01:20:03.09\01:20:04.64
when the time
of the end will be.
01:20:04.67\01:20:06.21
It will be after a time, times
01:20:06.24\01:20:09.05
and a half a time
and I know I'm at ASI
01:20:09.08\01:20:11.01
and so I'm moving quite quickly,
01:20:11.04\01:20:12.35
but I think you know this
01:20:12.38\01:20:13.61
and I think you understand this.
01:20:13.64\01:20:15.18
How long is the time?
01:20:15.21\01:20:18.97
One year, right, 360 days.
01:20:19.00\01:20:20.94
Two and a time is
two years, 720 days,
01:20:20.97\01:20:24.91
a half a time 180 days
01:20:24.94\01:20:26.71
adding that all
together 1,260 days.
01:20:26.74\01:20:30.39
The angel tells
Daniel that this prophecy
01:20:30.42\01:20:32.79
is for the time of
the end and we know
01:20:32.82\01:20:35.23
that the 1,260 day
prophecy began in 538
01:20:35.26\01:20:40.31
which means
somewhere around 1798
01:20:40.34\01:20:43.18
the time of the end would begin
01:20:43.21\01:20:45.21
and the unsealing of the
Book of Daniel would happen.
01:20:45.24\01:20:49.97
And so well I'm sure
Daniel was disappointed
01:20:50.00\01:20:51.97
because he wanted to know
01:20:52.00\01:20:53.15
in faith he
allowed Jesus to lead
01:20:53.18\01:20:55.71
and placed his faith in
Him and His trust in Him.
01:20:55.74\01:21:00.34
And so you question
01:21:00.37\01:21:01.48
what is this have
to do with anything?
01:21:01.51\01:21:02.68
We'll fast
forward about 600 years.
01:21:02.71\01:21:04.44
The Apostle John sat on
that rocky island called Patmos.
01:21:07.44\01:21:13.03
And in
Revelation the 10th chapter,
01:21:13.06\01:21:16.35
God would give an answer
01:21:16.38\01:21:18.33
to the unsealing
of the Book of Daniel.
01:21:18.36\01:21:21.96
Revelation 10 chapter is
what they call in to commentary
01:21:21.99\01:21:25.67
in interlude between the
sixth and the seventh trumpet.
01:21:25.70\01:21:30.07
The seven trumpets are in a
one in a series of three sevens,
01:21:30.10\01:21:36.00
the seven churches, the
seven seals, the seven trumpets.
01:21:36.03\01:21:40.89
Seven churches, the spiritual
condition of the church.
01:21:40.92\01:21:43.43
The seven seals, God's
judgment on the church.
01:21:43.46\01:21:46.03
The seven trumpets,
Satan's attack on the church.
01:21:46.06\01:21:50.35
But let's read
here in Revelation 10:1
01:21:50.38\01:21:54.82
"I saw still
another mighty angel
01:21:54.85\01:21:57.45
coming down from
heaven, clothed with a cloud.
01:21:57.48\01:22:01.31
And a rainbow was on his
head, his face was like the sun,
01:22:01.34\01:22:05.52
and his feet
like pillars of fire.
01:22:05.55\01:22:08.01
He had a little
book open in his hand.
01:22:08.04\01:22:09.82
And he set his
right foot on the sea
01:22:09.85\01:22:11.92
and his left foot on the land,
01:22:11.95\01:22:13.48
and cried with a loud
voice, as when a lion roars.
01:22:13.51\01:22:17.60
And when he cried out,
01:22:17.63\01:22:18.69
seven thunders
uttered their voices.
01:22:18.72\01:22:21.73
Now when the seven
thunders uttered their voices,
01:22:21.76\01:22:23.77
I was about to write,
01:22:23.80\01:22:24.84
but I heard a voice
from heaven saying to me,
01:22:24.87\01:22:26.95
'Seal up the things
01:22:26.98\01:22:28.09
which the seven
thunders uttered,
01:22:28.12\01:22:29.97
and do not write them.'
01:22:30.00\01:22:32.06
The angel whom I
saw standing on the sea
01:22:32.09\01:22:34.88
and on the land
raised up his hand to heaven
01:22:34.91\01:22:37.80
and swore by Him who
lives forever and ever,
01:22:37.83\01:22:40.71
who created heaven and
the things that are in it,
01:22:40.74\01:22:43.08
the earth and the
things that are in it,
01:22:43.11\01:22:44.93
and the sea and the
things that are in it,
01:22:44.96\01:22:47.62
that there should
be delay no longer,
01:22:47.65\01:22:51.02
but in the days of the
sounding of the seventh angel,
01:22:51.05\01:22:53.75
when he is about to sound,
01:22:53.78\01:22:55.59
the mystery of
God would be finished,
01:22:55.62\01:22:57.72
as He declared to His
servants the prophets."
01:22:57.75\01:23:03.04
Friends, as we read this
01:23:03.07\01:23:04.15
as John would
have heard these words.
01:23:04.18\01:23:07.88
John undoubtedly was
a student of the Bible.
01:23:07.91\01:23:11.25
John undoubtedly was a
student of the Bible prophecy
01:23:11.28\01:23:15.05
and as soon as he would
have seen this in vision
01:23:15.08\01:23:18.80
all of a sudden it
would trigger in his mind
01:23:18.83\01:23:22.31
and his mind would be
brought back to where,
01:23:22.34\01:23:25.11
right back to Daniel Chapter
12 because there Daniel--
01:23:25.14\01:23:30.80
excuse me John would see,
01:23:30.83\01:23:32.65
he would see that
there was an angel.
01:23:32.68\01:23:35.20
He would see this
right hand to heaven.
01:23:35.23\01:23:37.74
He would see an angels
swearing and he would see that--
01:23:37.77\01:23:40.94
swearing by a name and
he would see this angel
01:23:40.97\01:23:43.75
saying that there
would be delay no longer.
01:23:43.78\01:23:49.10
The word delay in Greek is
the word Cronus in the Greek.
01:23:49.13\01:23:52.72
It's from where we get
the English word chronology.
01:23:52.75\01:23:56.24
This angel is instructing John
01:23:59.16\01:24:01.84
that
chronological consecutive time
01:24:01.87\01:24:04.88
is about to run its course.
01:24:04.91\01:24:06.74
In other words, the
prophetic time given
01:24:06.77\01:24:09.89
is about to run its course
and in a reenactment in vision,
01:24:09.92\01:24:17.23
John is about to be revealed
01:24:17.26\01:24:19.25
the unsealing of
the Book of Daniel.
01:24:19.28\01:24:22.10
And what would happen
01:24:22.13\01:24:23.49
when the Book of
Daniel was unsealed?
01:24:23.52\01:24:27.39
See the concern
of the angel is time
01:24:27.42\01:24:29.77
and the opening
of the little book,
01:24:29.80\01:24:32.87
all of these
illusions pointed the fact
01:24:32.90\01:24:35.23
that this angel
is instructing John
01:24:35.26\01:24:38.76
by that little sealed
book from the Book of Daniel.
01:24:38.79\01:24:42.57
And we already know
from the Book of Daniel
01:24:46.35\01:24:48.12
that this unsealing of the
Book of Daniel would happen
01:24:48.15\01:24:51.08
somewhere after
the 1,260 day prophecy,
01:24:51.11\01:24:54.16
somewhere after 1798.
01:24:54.19\01:24:56.70
And if you don't understand
the 1,260 day prophecy
01:24:59.72\01:25:02.37
you stop by one of our
Medimedia ministry booths,
01:25:02.40\01:25:05.15
you talked to my
friend Shawn Boonstra,
01:25:05.18\01:25:07.04
you come talk to me,
01:25:07.07\01:25:08.16
you go talk to Mark
Finley or Doug Batchelor,
01:25:08.19\01:25:10.43
John Bradshaw and will
help you with that 1,260 days
01:25:10.46\01:25:13.25
as well as and I
left out ministries
01:25:13.28\01:25:14.91
and somebody is
gonna come to me and say,
01:25:14.94\01:25:16.13
I could explain it too.
01:25:16.16\01:25:17.95
There is many
who can explain it,
01:25:17.98\01:25:19.29
but if you don't understand
that come find one of us
01:25:19.32\01:25:21.57
and we'll help you through that.
01:25:21.60\01:25:22.81
But friends, sometime after 1798
01:25:22.84\01:25:24.87
we should expect to
see the Book of Daniel
01:25:24.90\01:25:27.26
being opened up,
specifically Daniel Chapter 8
01:25:27.29\01:25:30.82
and the 2,300 day prophecy.
01:25:30.85\01:25:32.44
Are you all
following me this evening?
01:25:32.47\01:25:34.10
Yes.
01:25:34.13\01:25:36.50
And what happens friends, as--
01:25:36.53\01:25:38.68
what happens in
this experiencing
01:25:38.71\01:25:41.21
of the opening the book
in Revelation 10:8 it says
01:25:41.24\01:25:44.27
"Then the voice
which I heard from heaven
01:25:44.30\01:25:45.93
spoke to me again and
said, 'Go, take the little book
01:25:45.96\01:25:49.22
which is open in
the hand of the angel
01:25:49.25\01:25:51.25
who stands on the
sea and on the earth.'
01:25:51.28\01:25:53.74
So I went to the
angel and I said to him,
01:25:53.77\01:25:55.75
'Give me the little book.'
01:25:55.78\01:25:57.52
And he said to
me, 'Take and eat it,
01:25:57.55\01:25:59.51
and it will make
your stomach bitter,
01:25:59.54\01:26:01.20
but it will be as sweet
as honey in your mouth.'
01:26:01.23\01:26:05.02
Then I took the little book out
of the angel's hand and ate it,
01:26:05.05\01:26:07.76
and it was as sweet
as honey in my mouth.
01:26:07.79\01:26:10.82
But when I had eaten it,
my stomach became bitter."
01:26:10.85\01:26:17.56
That word sweet in the
Greek is the word gluku
01:26:17.59\01:26:20.74
from where we
get the word glucose.
01:26:20.77\01:26:24.17
This is a pure sugar taste
01:26:24.20\01:26:26.93
that John is having
in his mouth, its sweet.
01:26:26.96\01:26:29.87
Sweeter than even honey,
01:26:29.90\01:26:34.20
but then it says its bitter,
01:26:34.23\01:26:39.00
literally to be
undrinkable to be sour,
01:26:39.03\01:26:44.00
and it just
figuratively used in the Greek
01:26:44.03\01:26:46.28
often to mean
embittered or resentful.
01:26:46.31\01:26:51.91
So John eats something sweet,
01:26:51.94\01:26:55.41
but then it's
bitter in the stomach.
01:26:55.44\01:26:59.28
It all most sounds like John
01:26:59.31\01:27:00.54
is having a case of indigestion.
01:27:00.57\01:27:03.14
You know, some of us experience
that when we go to potluck.
01:27:03.17\01:27:06.59
It's sweet in the mouth, right?
01:27:06.62\01:27:09.15
As we-- as we
filled the plate full,
01:27:09.18\01:27:11.66
but then after we eat it
we have that regretful moment
01:27:11.69\01:27:14.30
where we say, oh, I
think I ate too much.
01:27:14.33\01:27:18.20
And as the food continues
to fall down into the stomach,
01:27:18.23\01:27:21.06
you realize in fact,
you did eat too much.
01:27:21.09\01:27:23.66
And John experiences
this indigestive moment
01:27:23.69\01:27:27.35
because it's sweet in the mouth,
01:27:27.38\01:27:28.56
but it's bitter in the stomach.
01:27:28.59\01:27:30.82
And friends we
have to understand
01:27:30.85\01:27:32.79
as the angel is
in acting with John,
01:27:32.82\01:27:35.83
the sweet and bitter
experience sometime after 1798,
01:27:35.86\01:27:40.20
but before the
close of prohibition
01:27:40.23\01:27:42.35
the prophecies of
Daniel were to be understood
01:27:42.38\01:27:45.17
and opened and the experience
would be sweet as honey.
01:27:45.20\01:27:49.52
Well, what's happening in
1798 in the churches all around,
01:27:49.55\01:27:53.71
especially in the United States
and in England and in Europe?
01:27:53.74\01:27:58.02
The churches were
teaching something
01:27:58.05\01:27:59.42
called postmillennialism.
01:27:59.45\01:28:01.24
Postmillennialism is
essentially taught the idea
01:28:01.27\01:28:04.11
that the earth is getting
better and better and better
01:28:04.14\01:28:07.48
and eventually Jesus will come
01:28:07.51\01:28:09.99
to reign over His church
for 1,000 years of Ethiopia.
01:28:10.02\01:28:15.75
But friends, it just
took looking around to realize
01:28:15.78\01:28:18.19
that the world was not
getting better and better.
01:28:18.22\01:28:21.71
And so on comes the
seen these individuals
01:28:21.74\01:28:24.05
who have studied
the Book of Daniel,
01:28:24.08\01:28:25.67
who began
teaching premillennialism
01:28:25.70\01:28:28.18
and premillennialism teaches
01:28:28.21\01:28:30.26
that the only fix of
the problems on this earth
01:28:30.29\01:28:32.97
is the Lord Jesus returning
in a cataclysmic event.
01:28:33.00\01:28:37.88
And so all around the world
01:28:37.91\01:28:40.79
the Book of Daniel
begins to be opened up.
01:28:40.82\01:28:43.10
Johann Peter in Germany,
John Aquila Brown in England,
01:28:43.13\01:28:47.27
William Cummings
Davis in Scotland,
01:28:47.30\01:28:50.12
Joseph Wolf a Jewish Christian
who traveled the world,
01:28:50.15\01:28:53.80
Edward Irving in
Scotland and England,
01:28:53.83\01:28:56.53
William Digby in Ireland
and a little Baptist preacher
01:28:56.56\01:29:01.15
by the name of William Miller
01:29:01.18\01:29:03.14
in the United States of America.
01:29:03.17\01:29:06.76
And they began
preaching and opening up,
01:29:06.79\01:29:09.42
the prophecies of Daniel
01:29:09.45\01:29:11.87
and listen to
Hiram Edson how he--
01:29:11.90\01:29:14.11
how he described
the Advent experience
01:29:14.14\01:29:17.00
as he began to understand
01:29:17.03\01:29:18.69
Daniel Chapter 8
and Daniel Chapter 9.
01:29:18.72\01:29:21.52
Hiram Edson said this,
"I mused in my own heart,
01:29:21.55\01:29:24.32
saying, my advent
experience has been
01:29:24.35\01:29:27.40
the brightest of all
my Christian experience."
01:29:27.43\01:29:33.19
What were they teaching?
01:29:33.22\01:29:34.84
They began teaching
that Jesus was going to come,
01:29:34.87\01:29:37.38
sometime around 1843 or 1844
01:29:37.41\01:29:41.87
and people often will say to me,
01:29:41.90\01:29:43.32
how could they not--
01:29:43.35\01:29:44.41
how could they
ignore the words of Jesus,
01:29:44.44\01:29:46.75
when Jesus said, no man
shall know the day or the hour.
01:29:46.78\01:29:50.29
Friends, they
simply explained that
01:29:50.32\01:29:51.80
by saying that
Jesus when He was here,
01:29:51.83\01:29:54.95
no one knew the day or the hour,
01:29:54.98\01:29:57.51
but now there that for
them to know the day and hour,
01:29:57.54\01:30:00.44
that's how they got around this.
01:30:00.47\01:30:03.75
But friends, they were excited
01:30:03.78\01:30:04.94
because they believe
that Jesus was coming back.
01:30:04.97\01:30:08.65
They believe that
Jesus was coming back
01:30:08.68\01:30:10.42
until eventually
in the Advent movement
01:30:10.45\01:30:12.77
here in the United States,
01:30:12.80\01:30:13.95
they set a day
of October 22, 1844.
01:30:13.98\01:30:17.94
And they looked
forward, they looked forward
01:30:17.97\01:30:20.65
with great
expectation to Jesus coming.
01:30:20.68\01:30:24.74
And too often we speak
of the great disappointment
01:30:24.77\01:30:27.17
as some merely passing moment.
01:30:27.20\01:30:29.44
Oh, it was the
great disappointment.
01:30:29.47\01:30:32.10
Friends, I want you to
think about all your hope,
01:30:32.13\01:30:37.10
every thing you have, centered
and focused on Jesus coming.
01:30:37.13\01:30:44.25
When you go out sometime in
the morning October 22, 1844
01:30:48.30\01:30:53.53
and you get your
family out on the yard,
01:30:53.56\01:30:57.46
you gather your
children together
01:30:57.49\01:30:59.14
and you began to
read the stories,
01:30:59.17\01:31:02.16
you began to go over
the prophecies of Daniel,
01:31:02.19\01:31:07.69
noon comes, 3 o'clock comes,
01:31:07.72\01:31:13.78
8 o'clock
comes, 10 o'clock comes
01:31:13.81\01:31:19.46
and then midnight takes away.
01:31:22.15\01:31:23.75
Hiram Edson wrote these words,
01:31:27.07\01:31:30.24
"Our
expectations were raised high,
01:31:30.27\01:31:33.00
and thus we looked
for our coming Lord
01:31:33.03\01:31:35.12
until the clock
tolled 12, at midnight.
01:31:35.15\01:31:38.34
The day had passed
01:31:38.37\01:31:40.30
and our disappointment
became a certainty.
01:31:40.33\01:31:43.72
Our fondest hopes and
expectations were blasted,
01:31:43.75\01:31:47.30
and such a spirit
of weeping came over us
01:31:47.33\01:31:49.85
as I never experienced before.
01:31:49.88\01:31:51.93
It seemed that the
loss of all earthly friends
01:31:51.96\01:31:55.13
could have been no comparison.
01:31:55.16\01:31:56.86
We wept, and
wept, till the day dawn.
01:31:56.89\01:32:01.30
Has the Bible proved a failure?
01:32:01.33\01:32:03.33
Is there no God in heaven,
01:32:03.36\01:32:05.01
no golden home
city, no paradise?
01:32:05.04\01:32:07.41
Is all this but a
cunningly devised fable?
01:32:07.44\01:32:10.66
Is there no reality to our
fondest hope and expectation?
01:32:10.69\01:32:16.73
And then listen to
the words of Henry Emmons,
01:32:16.76\01:32:20.55
"I waited all
Tuesday, October 22
01:32:20.58\01:32:24.79
and dear Jesus did not come.
01:32:24.82\01:32:27.04
I waited all the
forenoon of Wednesday,
01:32:27.07\01:32:30.66
and was well in
body as I ever was,
01:32:30.69\01:32:33.35
but after 12 o'clock
I began to feel faint,
01:32:33.38\01:32:36.36
and before dark I needed someone
01:32:36.39\01:32:38.33
to help me up to my chamber,
01:32:38.36\01:32:40.52
as my natural strength
was leaving me very fast,
01:32:40.55\01:32:43.53
and I lay prostrate for two days
01:32:43.56\01:32:47.19
without any pain,
sick with disappointment."
01:32:47.22\01:32:51.27
Friend, do you find
yourself disappointed?
01:32:56.11\01:32:59.78
Do you find
yourself disappointed?
01:32:59.81\01:33:02.95
Do you find
yourself grief stricken?
01:33:02.98\01:33:06.09
There is an answer,
and it's the same answer
01:33:06.12\01:33:09.50
that God gave to
John in Revelation 10
01:33:09.53\01:33:13.20
because even though
there would be this sweet
01:33:13.23\01:33:15.14
but bitter,
sweet but bitter moment
01:33:15.17\01:33:19.16
the prophecy doesn't end there.
01:33:19.19\01:33:22.07
And friends, we need to read
01:33:22.10\01:33:23.43
Revelation 10
right into Revelation 11
01:33:23.46\01:33:25.87
because chapter
and verse division
01:33:25.90\01:33:27.50
didn't come in John's day.
01:33:27.53\01:33:29.29
He didn't write that
Bible with chapters and verses.
01:33:29.32\01:33:32.72
And so what is it say
there in Revelation 10:11?
01:33:32.75\01:33:35.85
"And he said to
me, 'You must prophesy
01:33:35.88\01:33:38.94
again about many peoples,
nations, tongues, and kings.'"
01:33:38.97\01:33:41.63
And what's the very next words?
01:33:41.66\01:33:43.42
"I was given a reed
like a measuring rod.
01:33:43.45\01:33:45.40
And the angel stood, saying,
01:33:45.43\01:33:47.98
'Rise and measure
the temple of God,
01:33:48.01\01:33:51.90
the altar, and
those who worship there.'"
01:33:51.93\01:33:54.79
Where is John taken
immediately in the midst
01:33:54.82\01:33:57.82
of his sour and bitter
disappointment to the temple
01:33:57.85\01:34:01.98
or to the sanctuary in heaven?
01:34:02.01\01:34:04.50
Friends, God has an answer
for our bitter disappointments.
01:34:04.53\01:34:09.61
It is the rise of
the remnant people,
01:34:09.64\01:34:12.04
the rise of the remnant church.
01:34:12.07\01:34:13.84
The relevant of
the remnant church
01:34:13.87\01:34:15.71
in the 21st
century is that the answer
01:34:15.74\01:34:18.36
to the bitter
disappointments of life today
01:34:18.39\01:34:21.08
is found in the sanctuary.
01:34:21.11\01:34:25.16
Psalm 77:13 you know it well,
01:34:25.19\01:34:27.76
"Your way, O God,
is in the sanctuary,
01:34:27.79\01:34:30.45
who is so great
a God as our God?"
01:34:30.48\01:34:33.29
Psalm 73:16, 17 "When I
thought how to understand this,
01:34:33.32\01:34:38.07
it was too painful for
me until I went" where?
01:34:38.10\01:34:41.28
"Into the sanctuary."
01:34:41.31\01:34:44.77
Psalm 63:2 "So I
have looked for You
01:34:44.80\01:34:48.74
in the sanctuary, to see" what?
01:34:48.77\01:34:51.28
"Your power and Your glory."
01:34:51.31\01:34:55.35
My friends, the
sanctuary is the blueprint,
01:34:55.38\01:34:57.67
it is the puzzle that
puts everything together.
01:34:57.70\01:35:00.62
The sanctuary
ties all the beliefs
01:35:00.65\01:35:02.78
of the Bible together.
01:35:02.81\01:35:03.87
It's God's blueprint.
01:35:03.90\01:35:05.78
And friends, I'm
telling you right now
01:35:05.81\01:35:08.25
there are some who want
to give up on the sanctuary.
01:35:08.28\01:35:10.79
If we give up on the sanctuary
01:35:10.82\01:35:12.44
we might as all
well go become Methodist
01:35:12.47\01:35:15.34
because the
sanctuary is the blueprint
01:35:15.37\01:35:18.11
for God's answer
to today's troubles.
01:35:18.14\01:35:22.18
The sanctuary, the
showbread teaches us
01:35:22.21\01:35:25.23
that man shall not
live by bread alone,
01:35:25.26\01:35:27.96
but by every word that
proceeds from the mouth of God.
01:35:27.99\01:35:31.35
The lamps teach us that
we need the Holy Spirit.
01:35:31.38\01:35:34.48
The altar of incense
tells us that we need
01:35:34.51\01:35:36.87
that continue dependence
upon God through prayer.
01:35:36.90\01:35:40.68
The mercy seat teaches this
the importance of the judgment
01:35:40.71\01:35:44.15
and that God is for
us and not against us.
01:35:44.18\01:35:47.86
The law of God is found
in the Ark of the Covenant,
01:35:47.89\01:35:50.76
Aaron's rod and the importance
of proper administration
01:35:50.79\01:35:54.65
and leadership in the church.
01:35:54.68\01:35:56.55
The manna is there in the Ark
01:35:56.58\01:35:58.37
and teaches us about our
full dependence upon God.
01:35:58.40\01:36:02.68
The priesthood in its teaching
01:36:02.71\01:36:05.35
about the priest
stood of all believers.
01:36:05.38\01:36:08.31
But above all else
why is the sanctuary key?
01:36:08.34\01:36:11.87
Why is the sanctuary the answer
to the disappointments of life?
01:36:11.90\01:36:16.80
Paul said it
best in Hebrews 8:1, 2
01:36:16.83\01:36:20.77
"Now this is the
main point of the things
01:36:20.80\01:36:22.73
we are saying, We
have such a High Priest,
01:36:22.76\01:36:26.03
who is seated at the
right hand of the throne
01:36:26.06\01:36:28.43
of the Majesty in the heavens,
01:36:28.46\01:36:30.22
a Minister of the sanctuary
and of the true tabernacle
01:36:30.25\01:36:33.50
which the Lord
erected, and not man."
01:36:33.53\01:36:36.58
Friends, what's the answer
01:36:36.61\01:36:37.91
to the bitter disappointments
of the life today?
01:36:37.94\01:36:40.10
The ministry of Jesus Christ.
01:36:40.13\01:36:42.70
Why is it distinctive
01:36:42.73\01:36:44.67
to the Seventh-day Adventist
Church and our message?
01:36:44.70\01:36:47.37
Because friends,
why Adventist? Why now?
01:36:47.40\01:36:52.09
When the main
stream evangelical church
01:36:52.12\01:36:54.42
teaches about a Jesus
who came and a Jesus who died
01:36:54.45\01:36:57.94
and saved you from your
sins so you can keep on going
01:36:57.97\01:37:01.33
and living like
you want to live.
01:37:01.36\01:37:03.77
This sanctuary
message tells us about a Jesus
01:37:03.80\01:37:07.01
who came, who died,
who rose again and is alive
01:37:07.04\01:37:12.37
and in the sanctuary
working on our behalf.
01:37:12.40\01:37:16.58
And He's not
just any high priest,
01:37:16.61\01:37:18.51
He's one that
sympathizes with our needs.
01:37:18.54\01:37:20.79
He's one that
sympathizes with us
01:37:20.82\01:37:22.43
because He was one of us.
01:37:22.46\01:37:25.68
Jesus understands.
Jesus came and He lived.
01:37:25.71\01:37:29.75
Jesus is alive, friends.
01:37:29.78\01:37:32.27
Friends I've always
joked with churches,
01:37:32.30\01:37:34.62
I've always joked with churches,
01:37:34.65\01:37:36.98
I've always joked with churches.
01:37:37.01\01:37:40.87
That-- somebody
is playing music.
01:37:40.90\01:37:45.46
I've always joked with churches,
01:37:45.49\01:37:49.80
they want to put a
cross up and I said you know,
01:37:49.83\01:37:52.89
you know, we don't need a cross,
01:37:52.92\01:37:55.75
we've need a
picture of empty tomb
01:37:55.78\01:37:57.33
because our hope is the fact
01:37:57.36\01:37:58.96
that Jesus is
alive, Jesus is alive.
01:37:58.99\01:38:05.11
My friends, it is the
message of hope for today.
01:38:05.14\01:38:09.87
Jesus is actively
working in the sanctuary
01:38:09.90\01:38:12.58
on our behalf right now.
01:38:12.61\01:38:16.35
In John 12:32 Jesus said himself
01:38:16.38\01:38:19.99
if I "If I am
lifted up from the earth,
01:38:20.02\01:38:24.03
will draw all
peoples to Myself."
01:38:24.06\01:38:27.71
Jesus is alive in the sanctuary
01:38:27.74\01:38:29.39
and that my
friends, is good news.
01:38:29.42\01:38:31.96
The answer today's problems
and challenges of this time
01:38:31.99\01:38:35.12
are clearly
articulated by Jesus.
01:38:35.15\01:38:38.05
In the midst of
the signs of the time,
01:38:38.08\01:38:40.07
Jesus speaks of
wars and rumors of war,
01:38:40.10\01:38:42.80
nations raising against nations,
01:38:42.83\01:38:46.72
famines,
pestilences, weather phenomena
01:38:46.75\01:38:49.98
in the midst of it
all Jesus gives the answer
01:38:50.01\01:38:53.58
and what's the answer
He gives in Mathew 24:14
01:38:53.61\01:38:56.53
"And this gospel will be
preached in all the world
01:38:56.56\01:39:00.87
as a witness to all the nations,
01:39:00.90\01:39:03.41
and then the end will come."
01:39:03.44\01:39:08.61
This gospel.
01:39:08.64\01:39:12.08
You know Paul
warned the Galatians,
01:39:12.11\01:39:13.80
that there was another gospel.
01:39:13.83\01:39:16.32
Jesus warned that there
would be false Christ's,
01:39:16.35\01:39:19.05
a false gospel would emerge.
01:39:19.08\01:39:21.54
And as we study history
01:39:21.57\01:39:23.36
we find this group of
people called the Gnostic.
01:39:23.39\01:39:28.88
The word Gnostic comes
from the Greek word Gnosticism
01:39:28.91\01:39:34.18
and it means knowledge.
01:39:34.21\01:39:36.12
And see the Gnostic believe
they had a secret knowledge.
01:39:36.15\01:39:40.17
And so they would
come into the churches
01:39:40.20\01:39:41.54
and they would say, you
know, I know what Paul told you,
01:39:41.57\01:39:44.19
but I have something
secret I need to tell you.
01:39:44.22\01:39:46.63
Friends, I'm
afraid we are facing
01:39:49.68\01:39:52.01
a version of this
in our church today.
01:39:52.04\01:39:55.74
I'm afraid that we have
01:39:55.77\01:39:56.87
our own set of
Adventist Gnostic,
01:39:56.90\01:40:02.07
they have secret
information, secret knowledge.
01:40:02.10\01:40:05.61
And friends, I don't want
to come across this too harsh
01:40:05.64\01:40:08.05
and what I'm about to say,
but I need to say it friends,
01:40:08.08\01:40:10.51
because the answer to today's
challenge are in Jesus Christ.
01:40:10.54\01:40:15.85
Friends, not one
person has been saved
01:40:15.88\01:40:18.32
by the knowledge of
who's sank the Titanic
01:40:18.35\01:40:20.51
or what's secret societies
01:40:20.54\01:40:22.05
or what the
illuminati are doing?
01:40:22.08\01:40:24.90
And I know we chuckle in
an uncomfortable chuckle,
01:40:24.93\01:40:27.54
but where we get really
exited about these things
01:40:27.57\01:40:29.92
because we feel like
we've got extra knowledge.
01:40:29.95\01:40:33.06
We don't need
extra knowledge friends,
01:40:33.09\01:40:34.85
we need to know Jesus.
01:40:34.88\01:40:36.68
So Jesus can change us
and we can change the world.
01:40:36.71\01:40:42.19
My friends, the
message of the gospel is clear,
01:40:42.22\01:40:46.79
and we make it more
complicated than it needs to be.
01:40:46.82\01:40:50.69
Jesus says this gospel.
01:40:50.72\01:40:53.68
What is this
gospel or the good news
01:40:53.71\01:40:55.78
that Jesus came to bring?
01:40:55.81\01:40:57.93
He told it to
Nicodemus that night
01:40:57.96\01:40:59.84
that Nicodemus
came to visit Him.
01:40:59.87\01:41:03.48
John 3:16 "For
God so loved the world
01:41:03.51\01:41:07.58
that He gave His
only begotten Son,
01:41:07.61\01:41:09.28
that whoever believes
in Him should not perish
01:41:09.31\01:41:12.17
but have everlasting life."
01:41:12.20\01:41:13.54
But we didn't
read the next part.
01:41:13.57\01:41:17.17
Verse 17 "For God
did not send His Son
01:41:17.20\01:41:19.39
into the world to
condemn the world,
01:41:19.42\01:41:20.96
but that the world
through Him might be saved."
01:41:20.99\01:41:28.13
It's a whole another sermon.
01:41:28.16\01:41:31.77
You go to Dawn McIntosh
01:41:31.80\01:41:33.20
and David
Fiedler's seminar tomorrow
01:41:33.23\01:41:34.75
and they are
gonna talk about this,
01:41:34.78\01:41:36.15
but that word they
are saved in the Greek
01:41:36.18\01:41:37.83
it's a special word
it's the Greek word sozo
01:41:37.86\01:41:44.83
and it means salvation and
its translated to be saved.
01:41:44.86\01:41:49.53
But in other
places it's translated
01:41:49.56\01:41:52.36
to be made well or to be healed.
01:41:52.39\01:41:57.13
This gospel that
Jesus came to bring
01:41:57.16\01:42:00.67
is a gospel that has hands
and has feet and has a body.
01:42:00.70\01:42:07.91
See too often we
speak of righteousness,
01:42:07.94\01:42:10.04
the
righteousness of Christ there,
01:42:10.07\01:42:11.52
righteousness by faith
01:42:11.55\01:42:12.67
and we speak of it as
some theological exercise
01:42:12.70\01:42:16.01
or some legal incident
that happened in heaven.
01:42:16.04\01:42:19.80
But friends, righteousness
by faith needs a person
01:42:19.83\01:42:22.82
because Jesus came to
seek and to save the lost.
01:42:22.85\01:42:26.37
He came healing,
teaching and preaching.
01:42:26.40\01:42:30.48
He healed to reach the heart
01:42:30.51\01:42:32.63
so then He
could change the heart
01:42:32.66\01:42:34.37
and change the person.
01:42:34.40\01:42:36.12
Why Adventist? Why now?
01:42:36.15\01:42:37.89
Because we've been
given the unique opportunity
01:42:37.92\01:42:40.40
to be God's last day messengers
01:42:40.43\01:42:43.05
that Jesus is
alive in the sanctuary,
01:42:43.08\01:42:46.05
which is the head
quarters of the universe
01:42:46.08\01:42:48.10
with one mission
and one mission only,
01:42:48.13\01:42:50.88
to save mankind providing both
physical and spiritual healing.
01:42:50.91\01:42:58.48
How is it going to be done?
01:42:58.51\01:43:01.95
In the book Medical Ministry,
01:43:01.98\01:43:04.07
Ellen white, writes these words.
01:43:04.10\01:43:05.68
"My brethren, the Lord
calls for unity, for oneness.
01:43:05.71\01:43:09.36
We are to be one in the faith.
01:43:09.39\01:43:11.72
And I want to tell you
that when the gospel ministers
01:43:11.75\01:43:13.82
and the medical missionary
workers are not united,
01:43:13.85\01:43:16.74
there is placed on our churches
01:43:16.77\01:43:18.93
the worst evil that
can be placed there.
01:43:18.96\01:43:21.69
It is time that we
stood upon a united platform."
01:43:21.72\01:43:26.16
Medical missionary
workers and when we think
01:43:26.19\01:43:28.11
of medical
missionary workers right now,
01:43:28.14\01:43:29.70
we have an image in our mind.
01:43:29.73\01:43:32.68
Friends, go and
study because that image
01:43:32.71\01:43:35.22
that we have is not the
image that Ellen White painted.
01:43:35.25\01:43:37.35
Medical missionary
workers were simply people
01:43:37.38\01:43:39.53
who would go
out in the community
01:43:39.56\01:43:41.04
find out what the needs
were and meet those needs.
01:43:41.07\01:43:43.86
Medical missionary
workers chopped wood.
01:43:43.89\01:43:46.00
Medical missionary
workers providing cloths,
01:43:46.03\01:43:48.16
medical missionary
workers provided food,
01:43:48.19\01:43:50.63
medical missionary
workers provided homes
01:43:50.66\01:43:55.30
just like Jesus did.
01:43:55.33\01:43:57.83
And in winning their confidence
01:43:57.86\01:44:02.05
then Jesus paid
them to follow Him.
01:44:02.08\01:44:06.66
In a world of
seven billion people,
01:44:06.69\01:44:08.27
how do we do this?
01:44:08.30\01:44:11.07
The Ninth Testimony page 166,
01:44:11.10\01:44:15.44
"The leaders in God's
cause, as wise generals,
01:44:15.47\01:44:17.76
are to lay plans for advance
moves all along the line.
01:44:17.79\01:44:21.64
In their planning they
are to give special study
01:44:21.67\01:44:23.88
to the work that
can be done by the laity
01:44:23.91\01:44:26.51
for their friends and neighbors.
01:44:26.54\01:44:28.59
The work of God in this earth"
listen to these words, friends
01:44:28.62\01:44:31.98
"The work of God in this
earth can never be finished
01:44:32.01\01:44:36.81
until the men and women
01:44:36.84\01:44:37.92
comprising our church membership
01:44:37.95\01:44:39.66
rally to the work
and unite their efforts
01:44:39.69\01:44:42.38
with those of
ministers and church officers."
01:44:42.41\01:44:46.40
The laity and the
clergy working together.
01:44:46.43\01:44:51.90
Novel idea isn't it?
01:44:51.93\01:44:55.39
Friends, God is calling
for us to unite together.
01:44:55.42\01:44:58.78
God is calling for us to be like
01:44:58.81\01:45:00.40
the church of Acts
that was of one accord.
01:45:00.43\01:45:04.49
They were united.
01:45:04.52\01:45:06.31
Literally in the Lexicon
when they were of one accord,
01:45:06.34\01:45:09.58
look it up it says
they were unanimous,
01:45:09.61\01:45:12.85
they came together
and they worked together
01:45:12.88\01:45:16.43
and they worked
through their issues.
01:45:16.46\01:45:18.32
How come we do this?
01:45:18.35\01:45:20.24
Zechariah 4:6 tells us
"'Not by might nor by power,
01:45:20.27\01:45:24.67
but by My
Spirit,' says the Lord."
01:45:24.70\01:45:27.16
Through the
workings of the Holy Spirit
01:45:27.19\01:45:29.27
and the
transformation of His people,
01:45:29.30\01:45:32.21
this gospel will go out
to the ends of the earth
01:45:32.24\01:45:35.41
any work will be finished.
01:45:35.44\01:45:36.87
But friends, God is calling
for us to unite together.
01:45:36.90\01:45:40.75
The clergy and the
laity to come together.
01:45:40.78\01:45:43.26
The health work
and the gospel work
01:45:43.29\01:45:45.61
to come together and
to bring back together,
01:45:45.64\01:45:48.15
that which was
broken so many years ago.
01:45:48.18\01:45:52.19
And the question simply
is for each of us tonight,
01:45:52.22\01:45:55.29
where will it start?
01:45:55.32\01:45:57.71
Because too often we
look across the aisle,
01:45:57.74\01:46:00.12
we look to another ministry,
01:46:00.15\01:46:01.81
we look over
there, we look over there.
01:46:01.84\01:46:05.68
The question must
be, when will I change?
01:46:05.71\01:46:11.87
Hebrews 12:1, 2 tells us
where we are to be looking,
01:46:11.90\01:46:15.94
"Looking unto Jesus, the author
and finisher of our faith."
01:46:15.97\01:46:21.34
We need to stop
looking horizontal
01:46:21.37\01:46:23.77
and start looking vertical
01:46:23.80\01:46:25.69
because Jesus says
when He is lifted up
01:46:25.72\01:46:28.94
all men, all women, all children
01:46:28.97\01:46:31.30
will be drawn to Him.
01:46:31.33\01:46:33.30
Because friends, the day is now
01:46:33.33\01:46:35.30
that there only
really two choices.
01:46:35.33\01:46:37.62
See Revelation 13:3 says that
01:46:37.65\01:46:40.25
"All the earth
wonders after the beast."
01:46:40.28\01:46:44.58
Friends, the only
way to save the world
01:46:44.61\01:46:46.58
from wondering after the beast
is to lift up the real Jesus,
01:46:46.61\01:46:51.58
to lift up the real Christ,
01:46:51.61\01:46:53.40
so that people can turn
their back on the antichrist.
01:46:53.43\01:46:57.17
When will we take this counsel?
01:46:57.20\01:46:59.78
Why Adventist? Why now?
01:46:59.81\01:47:01.85
The very story
of the fulfillment
01:47:01.88\01:47:03.44
of prophecy of our church
is the answer to society today.
01:47:03.47\01:47:07.21
It is relevant to everyone.
01:47:07.24\01:47:09.77
My friends, the church,
01:47:09.80\01:47:11.80
the Adventist Church came
out of bitter disappointment
01:47:11.83\01:47:15.89
and this world that
we live in is filled
01:47:15.92\01:47:19.24
with bitter disappointment.
01:47:19.27\01:47:22.03
The government has let us
down, the world has let us down,
01:47:22.06\01:47:26.64
our schools have let us
down, our parents have let down,
01:47:26.67\01:47:30.36
our spouses have let us down,
our children have let us down,
01:47:30.39\01:47:33.93
let's bring it a
little closer to home.
01:47:33.96\01:47:37.38
The conference has let us down,
01:47:37.41\01:47:40.13
the local church
leadership has let us down,
01:47:40.16\01:47:42.44
the pastor has let us down
01:47:42.47\01:47:44.10
and lay people have let us down.
01:47:44.13\01:47:46.89
And friends, the
only answer is that,
01:47:46.92\01:47:49.46
we will look on to Jesus,
01:47:49.49\01:47:51.32
the author and
the finisher of faith
01:47:51.35\01:47:53.62
and we would be converted in new
01:47:53.65\01:47:55.50
that we would be united under
the power of the Holy Spirit
01:47:55.53\01:47:58.78
to finish the work
that God has called us to.
01:47:58.81\01:48:01.89
Amen.
01:48:01.92\01:48:04.50
Friends oh friends, I want
to speak to my pastor friends,
01:48:04.53\01:48:09.64
when are we gonna
loosen the reigns of power?
01:48:09.67\01:48:13.15
When we gonna loosen
in the reigns of power
01:48:13.18\01:48:15.19
and stop taking
ourselves too seriously?
01:48:15.22\01:48:18.54
And I don't say this
in a snide way, but when?
01:48:18.57\01:48:23.34
And lay people, I
want to speak to you,
01:48:23.37\01:48:26.42
when we gonna
allow our pastors to do
01:48:26.45\01:48:28.17
what they've been called to do?
01:48:28.20\01:48:32.23
Friends, it's a
time that we need to come
01:48:32.26\01:48:34.04
in mutual
respect of one another,
01:48:34.07\01:48:37.72
that we need to unite together,
lay the plans that are led--
01:48:37.75\01:48:42.79
that we are led by
the Holy Spirit to lay,
01:48:42.82\01:48:46.58
and go on, and finish this work.
01:48:46.61\01:48:49.37
Amen.
01:48:49.40\01:48:53.11
Friends, we are in a world
that is bitterly disappointed.
01:48:53.14\01:48:59.52
Why Adventist? Why now?
01:48:59.55\01:49:02.33
Because our church was founded
on God's divine appointment
01:49:02.36\01:49:08.42
that comes in the aftermath
of a bitter disappointment.
01:49:08.45\01:49:16.39
Friends, we've often talk about
01:49:16.42\01:49:18.08
making the church more relevant.
01:49:18.11\01:49:21.48
I would encourage
us to get into the word
01:49:21.51\01:49:24.16
and get back to the message
that is relevant to this day.
01:49:24.19\01:49:30.63
Why Adventist? Why now?
01:49:30.66\01:49:32.11
The message is
that of a divinely,
01:49:32.14\01:49:34.64
prophetically called
message of Adventism,
01:49:34.67\01:49:37.63
of the remnant
moment to bring hope
01:49:37.66\01:49:39.90
to the bitterly disappointed.
01:49:39.93\01:49:41.48
It is the answer.
01:49:41.51\01:49:43.20
It is the answer to a world
that is bitterly disappointed.
01:49:43.23\01:49:47.58
Just last year the
General Conference held
01:49:47.61\01:49:49.75
an Urban Mission Conference
500 cities in the world
01:49:49.78\01:49:53.87
with over one
million in population,
01:49:53.90\01:49:56.55
the city of Boston
has 7.2 million people,
01:49:56.58\01:50:00.42
but only 8,000 Adventists there.
01:50:00.45\01:50:02.91
Denver has 3.3 million people,
but only 10,000 Adventists.
01:50:02.94\01:50:07.36
Minneapolis has 2.9 people--
01:50:07.39\01:50:09.73
2.9 million people
and only 6,000 Adventists.
01:50:09.76\01:50:13.94
San Francisco has
7.2 million people
01:50:13.97\01:50:16.95
and only 3,600 Adventists.
01:50:16.98\01:50:19.73
Vancouver, British Columbia,
01:50:19.76\01:50:21.22
has 2.45 million people
and 900 Seventh-day Adventists.
01:50:21.25\01:50:28.24
Friends, when I
heard these words,
01:50:28.27\01:50:32.78
I sat with a pastor
friend of mine and I said,
01:50:32.81\01:50:37.09
this is
impossible, this is impossible.
01:50:37.12\01:50:41.95
How can we finish God's work?
01:50:41.98\01:50:45.34
And this pastor of mine said,
01:50:45.37\01:50:48.17
its not us who
finishes the work,
01:50:48.20\01:50:51.16
it is as we yield
to the Holy Spirit,
01:50:51.19\01:50:53.82
that the Holy Spirit
can do some amazing things.
01:50:53.85\01:50:56.67
Friends, we are called to
bring the message of hope.
01:50:56.70\01:50:59.80
We are called to bring a hope
01:50:59.83\01:51:01.46
to a bitterly
disappointed world.
01:51:01.49\01:51:03.84
Everything we are
about must be about hastening
01:51:03.87\01:51:06.75
the coming of the
Lord Jesus Christ.
01:51:06.78\01:51:09.60
Jesus is the answer for
a sin, sick, sinking world.
01:51:09.63\01:51:14.07
Now is the time.
01:51:14.10\01:51:15.89
Now is the time
to lift up Jesus.
01:51:15.92\01:51:18.61
Now is the time to
pour all of our resources,
01:51:18.64\01:51:21.80
both physical
resources, financial resources.
01:51:21.83\01:51:24.84
There is an
offering here on Sabbath,
01:51:24.87\01:51:26.72
they are exhibiters over there,
01:51:26.75\01:51:28.35
there is
ministries like one day church
01:51:28.38\01:51:30.17
and Voice of Prophecy,
and It is Written, Canada.
01:51:30.20\01:51:33.06
God is calling us
now to finish the work,
01:51:33.09\01:51:36.80
to pour
everything in and lift Him up
01:51:36.83\01:51:39.62
because it is only
He who has the answers.
01:51:39.65\01:51:42.77
It is only Him. Why Adventist?
01:51:42.80\01:51:45.33
Why now?
01:51:45.36\01:51:46.63
Because we've been
given the unique opportunity
01:51:46.66\01:51:48.75
to be God's last day messengers,
01:51:48.78\01:51:51.37
that Jesus is
alive in the sanctuary
01:51:51.40\01:51:54.72
which is the head
quarters of the universe
01:51:54.75\01:51:56.65
with one
mission, to save mankind.
01:51:56.68\01:52:00.82
Friends, are you committed
to sending that message today?
01:52:00.85\01:52:04.91
I'm gonna invite Shelton
out to began playing again,
01:52:04.94\01:52:08.88
and friends, I gonna began
ASI this year by making a call
01:52:08.91\01:52:15.20
and I'm gonna make a call
as this song is played here,
01:52:15.23\01:52:18.70
it's a very simple call
three very specific people
01:52:18.73\01:52:22.00
and so I'm gonna
invite us to stand together.
01:52:22.03\01:52:24.17
That makes it easier for us
to come forward that want to.
01:52:24.20\01:52:26.66
It's not a general
recommitment but friend,
01:52:26.69\01:52:30.22
may be you are
someone here who came to ASI
01:52:30.25\01:52:34.09
and you been suffering bitter
disappointment personally.
01:52:34.12\01:52:37.30
I'm gonna invite you to come
forward to some of the pastors,
01:52:37.33\01:52:40.20
some of the ASI leadership
can have prayer with you.
01:52:40.23\01:52:45.29
May be you're a lay
person who has an always been
01:52:45.32\01:52:48.75
the sweet fruit
fullness of Jesus,
01:52:48.78\01:52:51.60
and you need to come forward
01:52:51.63\01:52:52.69
and make a commitment
today to say today it changes.
01:52:52.72\01:52:55.40
Would allow the Holy Spirit
to work in me and change me.
01:52:55.43\01:53:01.73
May be you are a
pastor or a church leader
01:53:01.76\01:53:03.46
that needs to be commit
today and recommit to the model
01:53:03.49\01:53:07.38
that Jesus has put forth.
01:53:07.41\01:53:11.00
A model of the clergy and
the laity coming together,
01:53:11.03\01:53:16.54
as "He Hideth
My Soul" is played,
01:53:16.57\01:53:18.40
I'm gonna invite
you to come forward
01:53:18.43\01:53:20.16
right down here in the front
01:53:20.19\01:53:21.36
so we can have
special prayer for you.
01:53:21.39\01:53:22.83
What a beautiful
group, praise the Lord.
01:55:51.97\01:55:56.51
Shall we bow our
heads as we pray to our God?
01:55:56.54\01:56:01.82
Our precious Heavenly
Father, we give You honor
01:56:01.85\01:56:06.46
and praise for You are our God.
01:56:06.49\01:56:11.15
Because in You we
have a beautiful hope
01:56:11.18\01:56:14.70
that blessed hope
of Your second coming.
01:56:14.73\01:56:19.04
Father, we want
to unite as a church.
01:56:19.07\01:56:22.96
We want so much
to finish the work
01:56:22.99\01:56:26.61
that You have
commanded for us to do,
01:56:26.64\01:56:29.51
but we need the out
pouring of the Holy Spirit.
01:56:29.54\01:56:33.01
And tonight we're
asking very humbly Lord,
01:56:33.04\01:56:38.60
send Your Holy Spirit.
01:56:38.63\01:56:41.31
Please Father, fill us up
01:56:41.34\01:56:44.60
that we will be able to
go out and preach the gospel,
01:56:44.63\01:56:49.31
preach that truth
that You have given to us
01:56:49.34\01:56:53.12
to give to others.
01:56:53.15\01:56:55.30
Bless each person
that has come forward
01:56:55.33\01:56:59.18
in their desire to unite
in the finishing of the work.
01:56:59.21\01:57:03.83
Father, hear our
prayer, for we ask it
01:57:03.86\01:57:08.45
in the wonderful
and precious name
01:57:08.48\01:57:11.37
of Jesus Christ
our Savior, amen.
01:57:11.40\01:57:15.37